Wheelchair delivery benefits 16 disabled persons

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person who benefitted from the wheelchairs

Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil delivered 16 wheelchairs donated by the Northamerican Organization “Free Wheelchair Mission” for disabled persons of scarce means.

Furthermore Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil personnel received training From “Free Wheelchair Mission” and through this training was able to hold a workshop for foundations representatives and similar organizations regarding care, handling and wheelchair assembly.

Besides that, the workshop emphasized the importance of identifying those physical characteristics a wheelchair must have for the beneficiary.

“I feel very grateful to la Junta de Beneficencia because it took my mother´s case into consideration to donate a wheelchair to her. Now I will be able to move her around much better”, said Yolanda Garcia.