Customized Wheelchairs for the 1st time in Egypt!

Dear Alhassan’s Donors,

We do highly thank you for your last donation. You have supported in the change of people’s life. Your support made a change for people who use customized wheelchairs in Egypt. Customized Wheelchairs in Egypt are becoming one of the main pillars in our projects to serve people with mobility issues. Providing a customized wheelchair for a person is providing him with a vital tool to have a balanced life that helps him/her to become independent physically and socially.

Through your donation, you shared in changing a child’s life; this child literally moved from darkness to a bright side of life. Mahmoud’s story has started with one of our volunteers whom helped him to join our community. He lives in a slum in Cairo, it is one of the biggest poor neighborhood in Egypt. Mahmoud suffers from Muscle Atrophy, which means that he has severe weakness in all muscles of his body. This leads him to become a permanent wheelchair user. His family cannot afford buying him a wheelchair. Thus, his mum used to carry him wherever he wanted to go, and they live in a third floor without an elevator. For that reason, he was sitting all his time at home without any social life. Mahmoud’s mum said, “all my dream is that Mahmoud goes to school and be educated as other normal children”.

When we knew Mahmoud’s story, we were eager to be a part of changing his life. Because of your donation, we were able to provide him a wheelchair. Now, Mahmoud is going to school and he is in grade 3. He is becoming very sociable with his friends, he is moving freely. With his wheelchair, he said “I am a butterfly”.  His friends started to accept the meaning of “physical differences”. His mum’s back is being saved from carrying him three floors every day to reach their apartment. Now Mahmoud is socially active; he is participating in our events.

Lately we won an honorary award of Zero Project Conference 2019 to acknowledge that we are sustainable in our mission and vision and we are always seeking for the betterment of life for physically challenged people through changing their disability into ability. This Award ceremony was held in the UN premises in Vienna which focused on Independent Living and Political

Participation.

Kindly check the link below for our winning moments & tribute:

https://www.facebook.com/zeroproject.org/videos/558152034671047/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTIwNDI1NDc4MToyMjQ0OTEyMDk4ODkyMjQz/Zero photo

This honorary award is not only for us, it is for you as well our donor. Congratulations for all of us. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more confident and accomplished. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)

Links:

• Zero Award - Winning moment and Tribute

Dear all Alhassan Foundation’s friends, believers & supporters,

It’s our pleasure to announce that we delivered more than 600 customized wheelchairs for kids and adults so far, and we are working on delivering a new batch of manual active customized wheelchair and electric wheelchairs for kids & adults’ wheelchair users in Egypt.

All wheelchairs users and people with mobility issues always say that their wheelchair is not just a mobility tool for them. They actually consider it a part of their body; as a matter of fact many of them call their wheelchairs their LEGS!!

That definitely make sense. That’s why we are trying hard to provide them with the most efficient wheelchairs that can help them be active, independent, and effective members in their community.

These customized wheelchairs are tailored made for each case based on his/her weight, height, health condition, and needs. It’s made with medically approved materials, and components. It’s also provided with cushions to resist pressure sores & any possible skin irritation. Riding this efficient light-weighted wheelchair made wheelers’ daily lives so much easier; consequently that improved their self-esteem and physical independence.

We would like to thank each and every one of you for your support. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more confident and accomplished. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:

https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/

Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)