The Rotaract Club at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a project that will change the lives of many people who live in the Ivory Coast - wheelchairs for polio survivors. $150 is all it takes to purchase one wheelchair. If half of the Clubs in Rotary District 5650 could purchase just one wheelchair - for $150 - the goal can be met!
And, the project has gotten even better! One of the Ivory Coast Rotary Clubs - Rotary Abidjan Lagune - will provide a store and maintenance facility for fabrication and maintenance of wheel chairs.
UNL Rotaract is raising money to purchase and deliver 120 wheelchairs to survivors of Polio in that region.
Working with The Canadian Wheelchair Foundation they need to purchase a half-sized shipping container and, in turn, they will help deliver and fit the chairs at no extra cost.
UNL Rotaract members are already working with the Rotary Clubs in Abidjan. They have delivered a wheelchair to prove the connections will work. To date, they have collected $15,000 of the $18,000 needed from fundraisers and contributions from the Lincoln Rotary and Rotaract Clubs and members.
Their hope is to deliver the wheelchairs by the summer of 2020.
$150 is all it takes to purchase one wheelchair. If half of the Clubs in Rotary District 5650 could purchase just one wheelchair - for $150 - the goal can be met.