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Wheelchair Foundation President David Behring Meets with President Bush Again
Wheelchair Foundation President David Behring had the opportunity to meet with President Bush and Laura Bush, along with 14 representatives from other organizations affiliated with providing aid to Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Some of the topics that were discussed in the meeting follow:…
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A Hope for Five Little Stars
December 21, 2005 was a different day in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The Transmex facilities changed their routine. The drivers and workers exchanged their heavy loads for some light boxes. The drivers’ characteristic fast pace was replaced by a calm walk, and instead of driving heavy trailers, they drove red wheelchairs. Transmex, for one day, stopped…
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My Road to Purpose
I know something about suffering, and I know something about hope. In 2000, I went to Viet Nam to distribute wheelchairs to physically disabled people. Our party travelled to a small village outside of Hanoi to deliver a wheelchair to a little girl, Bui Thi Huyen. Because of her disability, she had never been able…
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Greenbrook Elementary 5th Graders Sponsor Wheelchairs
The Wheelchair Foundation would like to thank Mrs. Vamvouris’s 5th Grade students from Greenbrook Elementary in Danville, California for their support of the Wheelchair Foundation. After working hard collecting and recycling cans to raise money, the students raised enough to sponsor four wheelchairs. Following a brief presentation about the Wheelchair Foundation, the students gathered around…
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Spare Change, Changing Lives
With the holidays upon us and children’s Christmas lists filled with the likes of the iPod shuffle, Game Boy Micro, and Xbox 360, there are three children from Pleasanton, CA with an attitude of gratitude and chose to give rather than receive. For the past year and a half the children have been putting their…
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Wheelchair Foundation Delivers Wheelchairs to Pakistan
A shipment of 560 wheelchairs arrived in Pakistan and was delivered shortly after the earthquake there. The shipment was arranged earlier through a donation from an expatriate Pakistani organization in New York. It arrived in the port of Karachi early in September. The wheelchairs were being transported from Karachi to Islamabad just after the earthquake…
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Morehead, Kentucky Sister Cites Pledges 100 Wheelchairs for Yangshou, China
Monday, October 17th was officially Sister Cities Wheelchairs for Peace Day in Rowan County and the city of Morehead, Kentucky. Dr. Ewell Scott started the evening by introducing County Judge/Executive Clyde Thomas and Morehead Mayor Brad Collins who read proclamations announcing the Wheelchairs for Peace Day. Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher also sent a proclamation that…
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Wheelchair Foundation Responds to Need
Responding to urgent calls for assistance, the Wheelchair Foundation announced it is delivering some 3,200 wheelchairs to victims of Hurricane Katrina. “We are shipping every available wheelchair in our inventory to Louisiana, Mississippi and other states to help our fellow Americans in this time of crisis,” said David Behring, president of the Wheelchair Foundation. “We…
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Katrina Victims in Desperate Need of Wheelchairs
“We’re in desperate need of wheelchairs,” said a frantic Linda Beason from the Houston Center for Independent Living. Beason continued, “The people of Houston have adopted the evacuees of Katrina and we want to help them as much as we can, including the ones with physical disabilities and the senior citizens. Thousands had to leave…
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Tempe Sister Cities to Aid Iraqis
The war in Iraq seems so remote from the comfortable lives we lead in the East Valley. It’s not like World War II where citizens felt a real engagement with the war. This is a questionable, dubious war whose conflict is beyond understanding. We mourn the tragic loss of lives in this struggle. For most…