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A young man who recieved a donated wheelchair in Cordoba Mexico shows how without proper maintenance and access to repair parts a wheelchair has a very limited life span. When you rely on a wheelchair for your mobility and independence it is very important that it not fail. This two part documentry of a home visit in Cordoba Mexico in Jan 2009 shows the importance of insuring people who recevie donated wheelchairs also are instructed on how to care for them and where they can have them repaired.

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Jimmy V gives a great speech during the 1993 ESPY awards

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ASF partners with the Wounded Warrior Project, Disabled Sports USA and the Fire Department of New York each year to host a weekend-long events recreational sports that include skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, waterskiing, and golf.

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This video is from the Wheelchair Foundation. They created this video as a thank you to the LDS church for its continued involvement in sponsoring wheelchairs and changing lives in Central America and all over the world.

The Wheelchair Foundation is a nonprofit organization leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, create global friendship, and to deliver a wheelchair to every child, teen and adult in the world who needs one, but cannot afford one. For these people, the Wheelchair Foundation delivers Hope, Mobility and Freedom.

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ASF partners with the Wounded Warrior Project, Disabled Sports USA and the Fire Department of New York each year to host a weekend-long events recreational sports that include skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, waterskiing, and golf.

Duration : 0:5:55

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Whirlwind Wheelchair International’s all-terrain wheelchair built in developing countries for use in developing countries.

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Disabled girl in wheelchair gets down the public stairs on spectacular way

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This video is a thank you to the LDS church for its continued involvement in sponsoring wheelchairs and changing lives in Central America and all over the world.

Duration : 0:5:38

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This video from a December 2002 distribution of 1000 wheelchairs, showcases members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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