By Joy Lai | Project Manager
Dear friends,
Thank you for supporting our project! We have donated 37 manual tricycle wheelchairs to the persons with disabilities and indirectly improved 37 families’ living situation in Vietnam after GlobalGiving’s Open Challenge.
We have worked with HCMC Association for the Support of People with Disabilities and Orphans, a local NGO and our partnering organization in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, to help us identify persons with disabilities who need wheelchairs to improve their current living situation. On the beautiful morning of December 31st, 2014, HCMC Association for the Support of People with Disabilities and Orphans held the Wheelchair Donation Ceremony. The wheelchair receivers were excited about their new wheelchairs, and we were so happy to see that they were going to start their new lives! Because of new wheelchairs, the disabled can find jobs or go back to schools, which will help them become more independent, and then improve the economic situation of the whole family. (Watch Wheelchair Donation Ceremony video)
These 37 manual tricycle wheelchairs are produced by local wheelchair manufacturer-Kien Cuong Factory. The owner of the factory has a physical disability and he provides employment opportunity to the employees with disabilities. This project helps not only the wheelchair receivers but also disabled employees in the wheelchair factory. We will continue our partnership with Kien Cuong Factory to purchase more 50 standard wheelchairs and help more persons with disabilities in Vietnam (More pictures about the factory).
Donate one wheelchair can help more than one family, does that sound great? Thank you so much for supporting us and working with us to change someone's life! Please share our project link with your friends and continue supporting us on GlobalGiving!
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