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Canadian Wheelchairs Delivered to Help Afghan Civilians Disabled by War
A gift of mobility has been delivered by Canada in the form of 560 wheelchairs to a country torn by war and littered with landmines. It’s common to see Afghan people of all ages walking on crutches, having lost a leg after stepping on an improvised explosive device. There are thousands of undetected landmines in…
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Canadian Troops Deliver Wheelchairs in Afghanistan
Canadian troops in Southern Afghanistan recently hand-delivered 560 brand-new wheelchairs to Afghan citizens with physical disabilities. In a ceremony held at Camp Shirzai yesterday Surrey MP Russ Hiebert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, thanked those involved in the project and recognized South Surrey resident and Executive Director of Wheelchair Foundation Canada, Christiana…
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You Can Save the Future of a Child
Dear Friends, Let us help make your holiday shopping the best experience ever! You can give hope, mobility and freedom to a child, teen or adult with a physical disability, by making a $110 gift to Wheelchair Foundation Canada. $110 is all it takes to deliver a brand new wheelchair that could sell for over…
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You Can Save the Future of a Child
Each $150 donation can deliver a free wheelchair to a child, teen or adult without mobility. Children and teens with physical disabilities can attend school for the first time. Adults can go to work and provide for their families. The elderly can rejoin society and family activities or just go outside to sit in the…
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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…