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Where There's A Wheel, There's A Way!
About Toby /
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More Action Photos / Training
Center for the Disabled / Speaking Engagement / Statement
of Faith
What are we doing now?
see a
slide show of our recent mission trip to Kenya
"How
I thank God for "Wheels of Love", because truly this is one of the most
creative ways to
minister to non-believers and to open up the hearts and to minister to those
physically
challenged...
Thank you for all the wheelchairs you've provided for us
to share God's love"
Josh McDowell
Author and International Speaker
(photo and quotation used with permission by Josh
McDowell)
Visit our home church website
http://www.communitybible.com/
Special Partners
Go
Here to see Kenya 2007 pictures !
ENTER HERE
(This new and secured
area of our website is being renovated.
Please pardon our dust)
(Use the username and
password that was provided via email)
"Go Here" provides the entry-way
into the secured portion of our site that is
accessible to ministry Very
Important
Partners
Above,
the founder observes distribution in Kenya Feb. 2006.
What
do you think about this statement? "Wheelchairs
that are made to operate on smooth surfaces (streets, sidewalks, shopping malls,
homes) within the United States are able to operate equally well on the
rugged terrain (or uncertain terrain) in developing nations".
True, or False? Click here
to see the first wheelchair that we took to Kenya. This high-quality
American-style wheelchair broke within the first 6 months of use!
Please look at this picture and judge for yourself. Are American-style
chairs adequate for developing nations if this particular chair broke after
only a few months of use?
At Wheels of Love, we are convinced that
many wheelchair designs which are able to function adequately inside the United States
are NOT suitable for general distribution to people living inside developing
nations; not unless the rules of proper wheelchair usage are modified and
properly explained to the people who are to receive such chairs. In other
words, we could continue to send American wheelchairs to developing nations,
but we should at the same time WARN that the chair may break if used outside
the home.
Engineers who specialize in the design of
wheelchairs are learning that many wheelchairs from the US are
failing to adequately meet the needs of people in developing nations.
To be fair, we have observed that even certain specially designed chairs made
for rugged terrain usage fail as well, but in different ways due to certain
weaknesses in design implementation. But there must be a way to produce
a safe and effective chair that will withstand the stresses and strains of
real world useage.
One common point of failure with such American wheelchairs
occurs at the tiny wheels and casters located in the front of typical
chairs. The spokes of these wheels are most often made of plastic which
snaps when the wheel hits a pot-hole, curb, step, etc., at just the right
angle and speed; after a certain number of impacts the wheel is destined to
break at one of the spokes, or even along the outer edge of the wheel.
After being permanently damaged by a suitable blow to the wheel structure,
not only can a spoke break but also the rubber lining along the outside edge
of the wheel can come loose. The rim of the wheel can also warp.
This is only ONE point point of failure. There
are other areas on a chair which can cause problems and there are other reasons
why an American-style wheelchair is inferior for use in a developing
nation, in our opinion.
[photo: This is what can happen to a person who is given an
improperly fitted wheelchair, or a wheelchair of an inferior design].
[Photo obtained from http://www.motivation.org.uk
Please visit this website to learn more about the technical problems
associated with wheelchair fitting, selection, and distribution.]
There are other serious problems, even
potentially life threatening, which can arise
when incorrect wheelchair fitting occurs, or if an inappropriate style of
wheelchair is given to someone whose disability is complex and requires very
special measurements, etc.
The chairs that WOL believes are safe
and effective in developing nations are manufactured outside the USA and are
designed to be extra durable on rugged terrain.
During our mission trip to Kenya in early 2006, Wheels of Love's founder, Toby,
used a
brand new (fresh out of the box) American-style manual wheelchair which broke on
the third week of operating on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya.
As we sought ways to get the chair repaired in the heavily populated modern
city of Nairobi, we discovered that Kenya
apparently does not have aluminum welding technology. This information
was provided by a mechanical engineer who was doing charitable work in Nairobi. The fact
that there is no aluminum welding technology in the country is not meant to
be a derogatory statement about the people of Kenya, they just have other welding technology at their
disposal.
Since many American-style manual
wheelchairs are made of aluminum, lack
of aluminum welding technology translates to scores of useless manual
wheelchairs that may be sitting and rusting away in junk piles. Or possibly worse yet, broken-down chairs may very
well still be in use by people who have no other options.
At the time of this writing,
a wheelchair donated from the United
States to a person living in a
developing nation is expected to break in a significant way, within the first
6 months of use!
As more data becomes available, it
would seem that there may be quite literally thousands of crippled American
wheelchairs dotted along the earth's landscape; wheelchairs that have
been donated by well meaning organizations.
To further compound the situation, there
are also some wheelchair designs that look good (or even "cute") to
the uneducated eye, which may be causing disappointment, heartache, and
serious medical problems.
At
this time, we believe that our chairs of choice are safe and effective but we do need
to evaluate these chairs early in the game, so that adjustments can be made
if necessary. It would be best if we do this prior to hundreds, or thousands of chairs being handed out in
the future.
One of our goals is to identify
wheelchair shortcomings, if they exist, and move toward improving the
quality of wheelchair donations.
Let us not be content with the idea of
playing the numbers game in order to have high statistics - large numbers of
donated wheelchairs - for the sake of raising funds for one's particular
organization. Rather, let all of us who are called to meet the needs of
the physically challenged move toward higher quality, not just
higher quantity.
Let
us do all things as if unto the Lord Himself.
If you or your church is interested in
participating in one of our next mission trip to Kenya, please send an email or
call us at the phone number below.
Wheels of Love ● 4319 Medical Dr. #131-308
San Antonio ● Texas 78229 ● 210-843-9078
email at: w h e e l s o f l o v e @m s n . c o m
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