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Canadian Forces to Distribute Wheelchairs in Afghanistan
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, announced ‘Operation Mobility’, a special initiative that will see Canadian Forces personnel in Afghanistan deliver over 500 wheelchairs to disabled Afghanis. “These wheelchairs send a message that Canadians, including Canada’s Armed Forces, care about the people of Afghanistan,” said Hiebert. “The wheelchairs our…
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Wheelchair Foundation Hits Half Million Mark
The Wheelchair Foundation recently increased the number of delivered or committed wheelchairs to over 500,000 or one-half million. This was a great milestone for the organization and is representative of the number of lives that have been touched and changed around the world through the gift of a wheelchair. To date, the Wheelchair Foundation has…
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Wheels Change Lives
This article appeared in the June Issue of the Danville Weekly Ken Behring always knew he was going places. Raised in poverty during the Great Depression, he started earning money at the age of 6 by catching nightcrawlers and selling them for a nickel a can. But a bicycle was the real catalyst of his…
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Hope Delivered to Yangshuo, China
Comments from the Morehead, Kentucky Sister Cities wheelchair distribution in China The ceremony took place on March 26th in Yangshuo China. Sister Cities of Morehead, Kentucky gave 93 wheelchairs and handicapped tricycles. Another charity, White Lion International, gave more wheelchairs to make 163 in all. Both Charities were featured at the dedication ceremony, and we…
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A Helping Hand
This article appeared in the Electronic Retailer magazine March 2006 issues. For a printable PDF version of this article, please click here. In June 2005, former ERA Chairman Dan Danielson proposed to the Electronic Retailing Association’s (ERA) board of directors an idea that would allow both the association and the industry to give back to…
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Wheelchairs Make the World Go Round
This article appeared in the Knights of Columbus Columbia Magazine March 2006 Issue. For a printable PDF version of this article, please click here. Ken Behring went as far as he could by cab. Then he got out and hiked through the Vietnamese countryside, pushing the wheelchair he planned to give to a girl he’d…
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Wheelchair Foundation President David Behring Meets with President Bush Again
Wheelchair Foundation President David Behring had the opportunity to meet with President Bush and Laura Bush, along with 14 representatives from other organizations affiliated with providing aid to Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Some of the topics that were discussed in the meeting follow:…
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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 calm walk, and instead of driving heavy trailers, they drove red wheelchairs. Transmex, for one day, stopped…
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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 girl, Bui Thi Huyen. Because of her disability, she had never been able…
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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 money, the students raised enough to sponsor four wheelchairs. Following a brief presentation about the Wheelchair Foundation, the students gathered around…
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