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Lookout Ridge Winery Takes Cult Wine to Another Level
Gordon Holmes, publisher of Research Magazine and Buyside Magazine, achieved a dream with Lookout Ridge Winery. Now, Holmes is helping others dream with his Wine for Wheels program. For each case someone buys of his Lookout Ridge wine, Gordon Holmes donates a wheelchair, in the buyer’s name, to a person in need. Holmes sold his…
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Lending a Helping Hand
Both members of the Rotary Club of Ayr, Brian and Muir were accompanied in the trip to Istanbul by their wives. Muir, Wheelchair Project Convener, Rotary Club of Ayr explained: “We were witnessing the banding over of the wheelchairs to disabled adults and children suffering from spinal paralysis at the Istanbul Centre of the Turkish…
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Wheelchairs for Rwanda
This audio clip is taken from CBC Radio on the Morning Edition. The story features Craig Lenz and Eddie Mwunvaneza, who are raising money to send wheelchairs to Rwanda. Getting around in a wheelchair is difficult. But in Rwanda, wheelchairs are nowhere to be found. Listen to two men working to change that, and find…
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All-Wheel Drive
This article appeared in the September 2006 issue of Delta Sky Magazine How could your life not be forever transformed, Ken Behring wonders, after a disabled, elderly Vietnamese woman, her teeth blackened and broken, confides that she wanted to die until you presented her with a wheelchair? After an immobile Guatemalan girl, forced to sit…
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Wheelchair Foundation Australia says Thank You to Rotary for $200,000 in Donations
PP Lyall Hood from Gosford West Rotary Club, the current voluntary Executive of Wheelchair Foundation Australia announced this month that with Rotary support, the WFA has received over $200,000 in donations. This money has been raised by individuals and Rotary Clubs around Australia just in the last eighteen months. From this fantastic Rotary support 2000…
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HSCA: People Helping People
HSCA (Human Service Charities Association) is an organization that works with governmental employees who wants to make charitable contributions through their pay checks. Wheelchair Foundation has been a member with them since 2002. Annually, billions of dollars are donated to charity by individuals giving at work. These contributions are either one-time gifts or are fulfilled…
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Palabras del Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada
Palabras del PRESIDENTE VICENTE FOX QUESADA durante la ceremonia de Donación de 20 mil Sillas de Ruedas, que tuvo lugar en el Salón Adolfo López Mateos, de la Residencia Oficial de Los Pinos. Bien, jóvenes, bienvenidas, bienvenidos a esta su casa Los Pinos, casa de todas y de todos los mexicanos. Hoy recibo con mucho…
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Mexican President Vicente Fox Praises WF
Words from VICENTE FOX QUESADA during a ceremonial donation of 20,000 wheelchairs, which took place in the Adolfo Lopez Mateos room of Los Pinos, the official presidential residence. Well, youth, welcome to your house, Los Pinos, home of all Mexicans. Today I receive with lots of affection, love, and admiration those who give us the…
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One Million Pennies
The Saamis Rotary Club of Medicine Hat, Alberta, just added this coin collection in the local mall to raise funds to send wheelchairs to Villahermosa, Mexico, in partnership with the local Rotary club. Other supporting groups are the Medicine Hat chapter of the ‘Desert Dolls’, a women’s motorcycle group. Thank you to the continuing support…
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A Majestic Evening of Hope Event
On July 28, 2006 the Niles (Fremont) Rotary Club in association with Group 7, Peja Stojakovic Children’s Foundation, and the Wheelchair Foundation will be proudly hosting an exciting fundraiser called A Majestic Evening of Hope to benefit Lifeline Humanitarian Organization, Patron HRH Crown Princess Katherine. The purpose of this fundraiser is to raise the desperately…
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