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Wheelchair Foundation Global Updates

  • The Childrens Crusader

    At a stop in Haiphong during a recent mission to deliver wheelchairs to Vietnam, Kenneth Behring was introduced to a young, sullen girl who hadn’t been able to move her legs since birth. Tempting her with a lollipop, the 72-year-old former owner of the Seattle Seahawks lifted the youngster off a pile of rags that…

  • Delivery To Brazil Features Queen of Spain

    Queen Sofia of Spain joined Brazilian First Lady Ruth Correa Leite and Wheelchair Foundation’s founder and primary benefactor Kenneth E. Behring this week in a ceremony presenting new wheelchairs to 40 of Brazil’s neediest citizens. This was the first in a series of future wheelchair deliveries to the people of Brazil by the Wheelchair Foundation,…

  • Wheelchair Foundation

    Philanthropist Kenneth E. Behring announced today that he has committed to contribute $15 million toward a new international effort of purchasing and delivering one million wheelchairs in the next five years. Behring said the effort would be organized under the auspices of Wheelchair Foundation, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs to men, women…