Part of the responsability maintained by the wheelchair donation program of La Junta de Beneficencia together with the North American Free Wheelchair Missión, FWM, is constituted by the instruction of those representing social aid Institutions which receive these chairs, insofar as assembly knowedge, repairs and other important aspects to the benefit of end users of this important implement of mobility.
Nicole Vandert Zouwen and Crystal Jackson, FWM, Representatives of Free Wheelchair Mission, trained 18 reprentatives from different Organizations and Foundations which help us distribute the chairs, among them, the San Carlos Sugar mill, ASVOLH, the Dolores Sopeña Foundation and Personnel from the donations warehouse as well as our Institution's Foreign Relations department.
Alicia Gomez and Mariela Rodas, ASVOLH volunteer and Dolores Sopeña Foundation representative respectively, commented about the importance of the theoretical-practical workshop, which helps them, not only with the chair assembly but also in how to move them around and identify the needs of each person in order to deliver the right chair to them.
For Nicole Vander Zouwen training is important because as a donor organization they make sure that their strategic allies perform delivery in a correct and safe manner for beneficiaries bedsides allowing strategic partner greater knowledge of the donations program they upkeep on an international level.
Training ended with delivery of 19 wheelchairs to persons of scant economic means during which all the knowledge acquired for the 3 days of intensive work were put to use which guarantees social aid organizations, once again, in the distribution of wheelchairs donated by Free Wheelchair Mission through the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil
