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Springdale Rotary Leads Efforts to Support Wheelchair Foundation
The three-minute video begins with scenes of children scooting down hallways on their bottoms, inching along on their elbows and crawling through sand. It goes on to show a grown man carried through the streets and an elderly woman isolated in her bed. All are Third World people who have lost the use of their…
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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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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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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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Rotary Club of Pretoria East Delivers Hope to South Africa
On Sunday the 30th of January 2005 a group of Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Pretoria went to the Modisha (part of Moretele) Association for the Disabled (close to Winterveldt) in South Africa in order to hand over 12 wheelchairs to needy recipients. Thank you very much to Rotary International, the Wheelchair Foundation, and…
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13-Year-Old Boy, Josh Burger, Raised Funds For 50 Wheelchairs
As a 4 ½ month old fetus Josh Burger’s parents were encouraged to abort him. Almost 14 years later Josh has overcome the odds and recently raised enough money to sponsor 50 wheelchairs. After receiving a special motorized wheelchair from the Rotary Club in Pleasanton, California, Josh was inspired by their kindness and generosity. He…