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Hope
Haven is generously supplying 13 brand new custom child-sized wheelchairs
for the rehabilitation home in Poltava. According to the caregivers,
this is the greatest need in the home as it enables them to move
the children around to their various therapy sessions without enduring
heavy lifting and moving. The chairs will arrive with the necessary
equipment to accommodate the growth of the children over the years
as they age.
OBS volunteer Joan Stout, who has championed this cause since the
beginning and made the necessary arrangements for the chairs, including
materials purchase and shipment expenses, and will be visiting Ukraine
at the beginning of 2008 to deliver the chairs to the children in
person. Taking full advantage of the shipping possibilities, Joan
gathered new clothes and other needed items for the children, and
is filling every available space in the wheelchair boxes.
2007
October: Fully funded & shipment in the works
2007 July: Project kick-off
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