How to Donate Wheelchairs to Third World People For Under Fifty Dollars

Many disabled people who live in third world countries never leave their homes, or if they do they crawl along in the dirt, or must be carried in some family members arms. Why? Because they are too poor to be able to afford a wheelchair. For less than fifty dollars you can supply some unfortunate man, woman, or child with an adequate and totally life-changing wheelchair.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet connection
• desire to donate a wheelechair to a poverty stricken person in the third world
• money to buy the wheelchair

1. happy wheelchair owner For less than fifty dollars you can completely turn around the life of a disabled person from a third world country. Many poverty stricken disabled people are simply left in bed most of the day or, if they are lucky, they are carried around, or they are able to drag themselves along in the dirt. I say dirt because most of these disabled people who live in third world countries don't live on paved streets for the most part, but in villages and small towns, and in the huge ghettos of cities in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America.
   
   Many of the disabled who live in third world countries just don't have the resources to, ever, purchase a wheelchair for themselves. Their families are stretched to the limit just trying to put enough food on the table to survive another day. Wheelchairs are an unimaginable luxury for these people. So you see them everywhere, dragging themselves along as best they can, if they are able to do that much.
   
   The vast majority of disabled people living in third world countries may never, or seldom, leave their homes, spending all of their days inside tiny shacks. For many being handicapped or disabled and living in a third world country, means living a life of near prison conditions.
2. big smiles Most wheelchairs are extremely expensive however a simple but adequate wheelchair has been developed that can be purchased for under fifty dollars. The wheelchair is then donated and shipped to a needy person in a third world country.
   
   A wheelchair means life, movement, play for children, and sometimes even employment for a disabled person. For less than fifty dollars you can give a person so much joy and improve their life so very much it is unbelievable.
   
   In the resources section below is the web site for how to donate the money to purchase a wheelchair. If you think you can't afford to buy a wheelchair, then maybe you can go in together with a friend or two, or ask members of your church or other groups you belong to, to help you purchase a wheelchair for someone who has lost all hope.
3. There is no way to describe adequately what a wheelchair means to a person who has never known anything but a life of pulling themselves along in the dirt or of being stuck in a tiny shack all day, but I'm sure you can imagine. The joy on the faces of the men and women, and especially the children, when they first receive their wheelchair and realize they are now mobile is priceless.
4. the wheelchair In the resources section below you will find the website for Free Wheelchair Mission, the program that is getting the wheelchairs to these needy people around the world, through your donations.
   
   The wheelchairs were invented by a man who made it his mission to develop a wheelchair that could be easily made, inexpensive to buy, and could be put together in the countries where the wheelchairs were being distributed. While this wheelchair is not the top of the line model you may be used to here in the USA, it does what it is supposed to by getting wheelchairs to the neediest of the needy around the world.