Help send
wheelchairs to Puerto Cabezas, our sister city in Nicaragua
The
Burlington/ Puerto Cabezas Sister City program for the past two years
has worked with "Free Wheelchair Mission", an international nonprofit
organization dedicated to providing "low cost wheelchairs for the
impoverished and disabled in developing nations around the
world".
<http://www.freewheelchairmission.org>.
Wheelchairs have been donated and
this April 2012 will arrive in Nicaragua. But we must raise $900 for
overland transport of
100 of the chairs from Managua to Nicaragua’s remote Atlantic
Coast. (That's only $9 a chair for making someone mobile). As last year, the chairs will be delivered to ODISRAAN, the organization of disabled people on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. ODISRAAN is headed by Martha Downs, Bilwi's assistant mayor, who herself uses a wheel chair and whose top priority is helping people who are unable to walk.
Help us reach our goal by making a donation to the Burlington/ Puerto Cabezas Sister City Program, earmarked wheelchairs.
the Burlington/ Puerto
Cabezas Sister City Program
15 Beech Street
Burlington, VT 05401
15 Beech Street
Burlington, VT 05401
Mr. Downs, in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, recipient of wheelchair in 2011
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