Mobilizing the Disabled

by Anne Leduc

Children, teens and adults numbering in the hundred of millions worldwide are in need of wheelchairs, but cannot afford them. These numbers may be overwhelming, however we cannot let the magnitude of need slow us down, let us start with one-person one wheelchair and do this a million times.

In the fall of 2005, Glenda Johnson Founder and President of Medical Wings International, named me to the position of Mission Director for the organization, later adding the Wheelchair Program to my list of responsibilities. I embraced the opportunity and started soliciting the financial assistance of my family and friends to help me achieve my goal of donating one or more wheelchair each mission. The following year my daughter Jennifer donating her used wheelchair, which is now serving the needs of a Bolivian child.

Medical Wings International has grown and does more than deliver health, dental and eye care. Since our inception, MWI has established a comprehensive approach to deliver a wide range of therapeutic and prophylactic medication interventions. It is our goal to create new institutions reaching out to future generations.

We are able to do all this magnificent humanitarian work, thanks to the help of our volunteers and sponsors, especially with the support of American Airlines, and their resourceful employees. Thanks to all of you and to our special friends at the Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, Texas and the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation. Together we are truly “Serving the World”. The wheelchairs MWI provides, empowers people, brings them out of confinement and gives them new ways of interacting with the world around them.

There is no freedom without mobility. We invite you to join us in our quest to help bring a renewed life to the millions of children and adults in our world, one chair, one life at a time.

To donate and/or become a member, please visit our website at www.medicalwings.org

To purchase a wheelchair for a global family the cost:

Adult Wheelchair $100.00

Child Wheelchair $150.00