The childrens wheelchair project

A Japanese donor, himself with a cerebral palsy (CP) child thought it would be a good idea to collect up some used childrens wheelchairs and send it to Nepal. Mark and I one day were very surprised to see a shipping container arrive at GPH Nepal - a long way from the sea. The info emerged that in this container were 90 different wheelchairs of different sizes, shapes and colours to give out to children.

The donor was also coming the next day and we wanted to be able to say thank you in nepali style - have a program and hand over flowers and say thanks.

We went around to a near by CP school and bought 7 students back to the hospital and due to the tight time frame we pulled the first 7 wheelchairs out of the container and placed the children in them - some of them took us a little while to work out how they worked!

Some of the wheelchairs really didn't fit very well at all but the children were excited to have something compared to nothing.

 Himalaya Sir, the head of the Kaski program extended thanks to the donor Hirokazu Morita...

 photos were taken....

 and then assessments were done to find wheelchairs that fitted the children best. This child is 2 and is soo cute (it is me sitting behind trying not to destroy the photo!)

 

 And the seven children, very very hungry after a long day, left tired but very happy that they had wheelchairs that fitted them well.

 And some big boys just have to play as well!

 

We have had huge demand for the wheelchairs and have distributed on average 4 a day! We have distributed over half of them and the hope is that when the children grow out of them they will bring them back and receive one of a bigger size.