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Honoring Gary Dworkin’s Service to the Wheelchair Foundation and Rotary
The Wheelchair Foundation is proud to recognize and celebrate Gary Dworkin for his years of dedicated service to the District 6960 Wheelchair Foundation Committee and for the extraordinary impact he has helped make in the lives of people around the world. In the May 2026 Rotary District 6960 Newsletter, Gary’s retirement from the District 6960…
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Rotary Club of Sanibel-Captiva Recognized for Transformative Support
Wheelchair Foundation is proud to recognize the incredible fundraising efforts of the Rotary Club of Sanibel-Captiva, whose commitment to mobility and dignity continues to make a life-changing difference around the world. At their 6th annual “Wheels for Wheels” fundraiser held on April 5th on Sanibel Island, the Rotary Club raised an impressive $28,000—enough to send…
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DONOR AND BENEFICIARY: A PERFECT PARTNERSHIP
Following is the Interview with Richard Flanders, former Governor of District 5170 in California, USA, highlighting the delivery of a container of 130 wheelchairs to the United Rotary Fund of Mexico, in memory of Kenneth Behring and Frank Devlyn. At the YMCA facilities in Mexico City, there was a gathering including Presidents from 10 Rotary…
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Chair The Love Delivers Wheelchairs To Bahamas
We received the amazing story and photos below from Glen Mather and our partners from ChairTheLove.org in Florida. It’s Just a Wheelchair Like Any Other “The hurricanes last year have turned our Bahamian Islands upside down, and we have a desperate need for wheelchairs”. We got the e-mail back in November 2020, right in the…
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DISTRICT 4130 ROTARIANS TEAM UP WITH ROTARY CLUBS FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
In the last week of February, earlier this year, we returned to Monterrey, Mexico, for a wheelchair distribution and other “hands-on” community service. On Friday, we painted a Senior Center for Alzheimer’s patients (“celery white” was the color they chose), planted five trees, and presented three people with wheelchairs. One of them was a polio…
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Charitable Group Del Corazon Donates $21,000 to Rotary’s Wheelchair Fund
This article was redistributed from it’s original article written by Jeb Bing of the Pleasanton Weekly and can be found here. Donation matches club’s fund for delivery of 280 wheelchairs to disabled in Peru Del Corazon, a charitable group that raises money to assist the disabled, has donated $21,000 to the Rotary Club of Pleasanton,…
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Walnut Creek Rotary 5160 – Costa Rica Wheelchairs Project
This International Service Project will provide regular and all-terrain wheelchairs to needy disabled children and adults in Costa Rica. The wheelchairs will be purchased through the Wheelchair Foundation and shipped by ocean container to Costa Rica. Assistance in Costa Rica is being provided by the Rotary Clubs of San Pedro/Curridabad, La Guaria Morava, and Cartago,…
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Rotary District 5170 and Wheelchair Foundation Deliver 560 Wheelchairs in Monterey, Mexico
This story was written by Josh Burroughs Chair, Silicon Valley Chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation, Wheelchair Ambassador, Rotary Club of San Jose Gandhi said it best: “the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” I can’t think of a better way to describe the feelings felt on our immersive…
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Rotary District 6960 steps up to support the Wheelchair Foundation
This article was originally written by Conric PR and can be found here. Rotary District 6960 District Governor Cyndi Doragh is pleased to announce that the district has donated more than $140,000 to the Wheelchair Foundation in the past year. This level of funding will provide mobility to approximately 1,400 people in need through the…
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Wheelchair Trip to the Philippines
This article is redistributed in full and was originally written by Jan Zitek of the Madera Sunrise Rotary Club in Madera, CA. Our Wheelchair Distribution by Rotary District 5220 began on March 7, 2016 from San Francisco with representatives from the Rotary Clubs of Escalon Sunrise, Madera Sunrise, Manteca, Sonora Sunrise, and Tracy Sunrise plus…