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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 $500 in a medical supply store.

We will send you a beautiful presentation folder with a customized certificate from you to that special person in your life and a photo of a wheelchair recipient. This gift of mobility will be received with heartfelt thanks and remembered long after the holiday season. And in the process you become a hero – one of the many wonderful people who have helped us send over 575,000 wheelchairs to deserving recipients around the world!

Please, make your donations as early as possible to allow sufficient time for us to prepare and mail your customized presentation folder. You can call us directly, donate online, or donate by mail.  A donation of $30,800 sponsors the delivery of an entire 280-wheelchair container to the developing country of your choice from our list of
destination countries. Each wheelchair in a full container shipment can be embroidered with an appropriate logo of your choice.

Thank you for helping us answer prayers, and improve the quality of so many lives around the world.

Happy Holidays and
Our very best wishes for the New Year,

Christiana Flessner,
Executive Director

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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 sun.

 

To make a donation in the name of a loved one and change someone’s future, please click here.

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Lookout Ridge Winery Takes Cult Wine to Another Level

0611_BB_Lookout_RidgeGordon 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 investment magazines and purchased a perfect spot for a winery, high on a mountainside on the divide between Napa and Sonoma where he planted a vineyard and started making his wines.

Around the time he started the winery, Holmes’ wife Kari was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Eventually, she needed a wheelchair to get around. While attending a wine event, Holmes met Ken Behring, a Northern California philanthropist who gives free wheelchairs to impoverished, impaired people in poor countries around the world.

Seeing how a wheelchair impacted his wife’s life, Holmes made a decision: As long as he owned Lookout Ridge, he would donate a wheelchair in the name of every person who purchased a case of Lookout Ridge wine. People who order a case of wine are sent a picture of the child receiving the wheelchair.

“There are several wineries doing wonderful charity work, raising money for various foundations and such,” says Holmes. “This is more of a one-on-one approach, and it is extraordinarily rewarding when you provide life-changing mobility to someone.”

Lookout Ridge emerged on the wine scene in 2000. The winery sports two high-profile winemakers: Greg La Follette, named one of the “five best Pinot Noir winemakers in the world” by Robert Parker, and Marco DiGiuolio, founding winemaker for Lokoya. Lookout Ridge wines have received considerable acclaim, including best Sangiovese of California, 90 point scores for its Chardonnay, and not only was Lookout Ridge named The Next Generation Cult Wine, but its Pinot Noir was the only one to receive the cult wine award.

Each year only a limited number of Lookout Ridge wines are produced. Wines are available exclusively via a mailing list (see www.lookoutridge.com).

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Lending a Helping Hand

Instanbul Wheelchairs_poseBoth 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 Association of Spinal Injuries. There are eight centres in Turkey and the association caters for all forms of mobility disablement, and it’s the distributor of our wheelchairs, together with the Rotary Club of Topkapi, Istanbul.

“Around 1500 people of all ages use or are assisted by this centre.”

Funding for the wheelchairs came from the Rotary Club of Ayr along with contributions from other Ayrshire Rotary Clubs totalling £12,500.

Muir explained: ‘The Wheelchair Foundation of America matched that amount to £25,000, which paid for one container load of 280 wheelchairs to be dispatched lo Turkey, a country where the Wheelchair Foundation had established that there was a real need for this sort of equipment.

“This project had been established by Ayr Rotarian Jim Eckford, former general manager Ayrshire and Arran Health Board, prior to his retirement.

“Jim had been at a presentation from the Wheelchair Foundation at the world Rotary conference in Barcelona, along with myself, a few years ago and became determined to raise enough money to send a container of wheelchairs abroad.

“In two years Jim raised £4500 from Ayrshire’s Rotary Clubs, before his untimely death.

“Since then the project has been carried on by members of the Rotary Club of Ayr as a tribute to Jim and his contribution and commitment to the Rotary movement.”

“Now we are delighted that the first batch of wheelcbairs has finally been distributed.”

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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 out how to donate a wheelchair.

To hear this audio clip, please click one of the links below:

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To see a video clip from CBC about this story (and others), please click here

Craig Lenz and Eddie Mwunvaneza are working with Wheelchair Foundation Canada to make a difference for the physically disabled people of Rwanda.  Each wheelchair costs $110 – already 280 Saskatchewan sponsored chairs are on their way to Rwanda. You can reach Craig at 537-9640.

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