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  • Surprise Your Mom This Mother's Day

    Millions of loving mothers worldwide must face each day without the simple freedom of mobility. These daughters, sisters, and wives must fulfill their roles as mothers from their hands and knees, often times on dirt floors.  What greater gift from one mother to another than providing a woman in need with mobility! As Mother’s Day…

  • Students at Pleasanton's Hart Middle Raise Funds for Danville Wheelchair Group

    Article in it’s entirety from Tri-Valley Times on 3/7/2013 PLEASANTON — Robbie Brumm has new found empathy for the disabled after spending a day rolling around school in a wheelchair. “It was a little more work than I expected,” the 14-year-old said. “You have a different perspective in a wheelchair. Everyone else is able to…

  • The Wheelchair Foundation: Giving Hope – Gaining Purpose

    This article taken in it’s entirety and written by Jody Morgan appeared in both the Danville Today News as well as the Alamo Today.    The Wheelchair Foundation has delivered nearly 920,000 wheelchairs in over 150 countries since its inception in 2000. As founder Kenneth Behring’s original goal of giving one million wheelchairs to disabled…

  • A Story Of Friendship, Hope and Mobility

    David Behring, the President of Wheelchair Foundation, tells a brief story of how meeting a young wheelchair recipient in Vietnam has turned into a lifetime friendship. Tran Nghia was a 17 year old high school girl in Hanoi when I first met her.  She had been born with a neurological disorder that never allowed her…

  • Wheelchair Foundation, the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley, California and East Meets West Foundation visit Vietnam

    In November of 2012, Wheelchair Foundation, the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley, California and East Meets West Foundation partnered together to distribute 260 All Terrain Wheelchairs and 60 Basketball and Tennis Sports Wheelchairs throughout the country of Vietnam. On November 9th, 2012, Wheelchair Foundation, the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley, and East Meets West presented…

  • Peru via Princeton

    Images Courtesy of John Merrill/Merrill Images The Princeton Class of 1977 delivers the gift of mobility to some of the most remote parts of Peru. Story by Donna Freeman Princeton Class of 1977. Bill and I arrived in Peru on July 24th, 12 days in advance of the August 4th rendezvous date. We traveled to…

  • Peru Through The Eyes of Youth

    This story was written by Laura Perkowski, the 24 year old daughter of Princeton Alum Ron Perkowski. Princeton Alumni w/ their children at 15K feet. “Our first full day was on Sunday, normally the day of rest. We, instead, boarded a bus at 6 AM to catch the train at 8 AM, where we rode…

  • Fundraising for Fiji

    Fiji-born American helps bring mobility to native land.

  • Painting a Picture of Hope

    World-renowned artist George Sumner and wife, Donnalei, join the Wheelchair Foundation team to deliver wheelchairs in poverty-stricken neighborhoods outside of Cabo.

  • Delivering Mobility in Ghana & Mali

    African recipients arrive on hands and knees and leave in new red wheelchairs.