Club Speaker - Rotarian Milon Frary

Mon, Mar 2nd 2020 at 7:15 am - 9:15 pm

Club Speaker - Rotarian Milon Frary - Wheelchairs for Africa

Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites
Club Speaker - Milton Frary - Wheelchairs for Africa Charity.

On Mon 2nd March Milton came to Gomersal Park Hotel and gave a talk about the Charity
Wheelchair Foundation UK.

Wheelchair Foundation UK is a non profit organisation leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with disabilities, to promote joy of giving, create global friendship and deliver

a wheelchair to every child, teen and adult in the world who needs one, but cannot afford one.

From the humble beginning in District 1040, Yorkshire with the goal to send one 40 foot container of 280 wheelchairs to Lesotho all 29 districts have been supportive in the sending, to date in excess of 33,000 wheelchairs to 30 countries.

Milton gave a short history of the Charity.
In 2001 at the RI Convention RI launched a joint venture with Ken Behring founder of Wheelchair Foundation a US organisation. With Kens assistance he launched in 2003/4 a separate UK
independent Wheelchair UK charity.
In 2007 Rotary INT in GB backed the Charity a special logo was drawn up as Wheelchair Foundation GB & I and this appears on all the wheelchairs that they fund..
efforts would be concentrated in Eastern Europe and Africa plus other deserving areas.~
Milton talked about 100 million without mobility causes - conflict, disease accident illness ageing and post polio syndrome. He talked about partnership in secondhand disability equipment working with Physionet to expand into wider communities.
The cost to build and deliver to its location is £95.

Rotary Foundation
Over the past 2 years we have been able to support the writing of 3 global grants and many district grants that has resulted in Clubs/Districts gaining funding from Rotary Foundation.Since 2004 the Foundation has donated in excess of US$900,000