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Palabras del Presidente Vicente Fox Quesada
Palabras del PRESIDENTE VICENTE FOX QUESADA durante la ceremonia de Donación de 20 mil Sillas de Ruedas, que tuvo lugar en el Salón Adolfo López Mateos, de la Residencia Oficial de Los Pinos. Bien, jóvenes, bienvenidas, bienvenidos a esta su casa Los Pinos, casa de todas y de todos los mexicanos. Hoy recibo con mucho…
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Mexican President Vicente Fox Praises WF
Words from VICENTE FOX QUESADA during a ceremonial donation of 20,000 wheelchairs, which took place in the Adolfo Lopez Mateos room of Los Pinos, the official presidential residence. Well, youth, welcome to your house, Los Pinos, home of all Mexicans. Today I receive with lots of affection, love, and admiration those who give us the…
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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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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…