Wheelchair Foundation News
A Hope for Five Little Stars
December 21, 2005 was a different day in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The Transmex facilities changed their routine. The drivers and workers exchanged their heavy loads for some light boxes. The drivers’ characteristic fast pace was replaced by a…
My Road to Purpose
I know something about suffering, and I know something about hope.
In 2000, I went to Viet Nam to distribute wheelchairs to physically disabled people. Our party travelled to a small village outside of Hanoi to deliver a wheelchair to a little…
Greenbrook Elementary 5th Graders Sponsor Wheelchairs
The Wheelchair Foundation would like to thank Mrs. Vamvouris’s 5th Grade students from Greenbrook Elementary in Danville, California for their support of the Wheelchair Foundation. After working hard collecting and recycling cans to raise…
Spare Change, Changing Lives
With the holidays upon us and children’s Christmas lists filled with the likes of the iPod shuffle, Game Boy Micro, and Xbox 360, there are three children from Pleasanton, CA with an attitude of gratitude and chose to give rather than receive. …
Wheelchair Foundation Delivers Wheelchairs to Pakistan
A shipment of 560 wheelchairs arrived in Pakistan and was delivered shortly after the earthquake there. The shipment was arranged earlier through a donation from an expatriate Pakistani organization in New York. It arrived in the port of Karachi…
Morehead, Kentucky Sister Cites Pledges 100 Wheelchairs for Yangshou, China
Monday, October 17th was officially Sister Cities Wheelchairs for Peace Day in Rowan County and the city of Morehead, Kentucky. Dr. Ewell Scott started the evening by introducing County Judge/Executive Clyde Thomas and Morehead Mayor Brad…
Wheelchair Foundation Responds to Need
Responding to urgent calls for assistance, the Wheelchair Foundation announced it is delivering some 3,200 wheelchairs to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
“We are shipping every available wheelchair in our inventory to Louisiana, Mississippi…
Katrina Victims in Desperate Need of Wheelchairs
“We’re in desperate need of wheelchairs,” said a frantic Linda Beason from the Houston Center for Independent Living. Beason continued, “The people of Houston have adopted the evacuees of Katrina and we want to help them as much as…
Tempe Sister Cities to Aid Iraqis
The war in Iraq seems so remote from the comfortable lives we lead in the East Valley.
It’s not like World War II where citizens felt a real engagement with the war. This is a questionable, dubious war whose conflict is beyond understanding.…
Bimmerworld Team Battles the Heat of Cleveland for a Season Best Finish
With high temperatures and strong competition BimmerWorld Racing once again finishes with two drivers in the top 10 at the exciting Grand Prix of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio.
The BimmerWorld Racing team arrived in Cleveland fresh and ready…