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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fundraising for Fiji
Fiji-born American helps bring mobility to native land.
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Update from Continuing Promise 2011
Continuing Promise 2011 delivers wheelchairs in Acajutla, El Salvador.
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Brits Abroad Shanghai – Red, White, & Blue Charity Ball for Wheelchair Foundation
April 23, 2011 – Shanghai The Union Jacks were flying high in more ways than one at The Fairmont Peace Hotel in the Peace Hall Ballroom on Saturday Night at our Red White & Blue Ball. Ball-goers entered into the spirit of the occasion with an array of ball gowns and jackets, which amply qualified,…