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Press Releases - Pre 2008
2007
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION TEAMS UP WITH SURF CITY USA® MARATHON FOR THIRD YEAR
November 9, 2007 Thousands Including Former NFL Quarterback Jay Schroeder to Run for Those Who Can’t in “Run for Mobility”
Free Wheelchair Mission Celebrates Orange County Culmination of Cross-Country Cylce - Ride for Mobility
June 8, 2007 There are more than 100 million disabled people in the developing world who have no access to wheelchairs due to poverty and economic isolation.
Free Wheelchair Mission and Reader's Digest Partner in 3,000-Mile Cycle for Cause, Ride for Mobility
March 14, 2007, MarketWire - Entitled Ride for Mobility, the grassroots educational and fundraising campaign was developed to help spread Free Wheelchair Mission's message throughout the country and to raise funds to purchase 15,000 wheelchairs.
Robert August and Free Wheelchair Mission join forces in Costa Rica!
Free Wheelchair Mission has partnered with Robert August, surf industry icon and star of the groundbreaking surf film Endless Summer (1965).
Running for a Mission!
January 17, 2007
Scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday, February 4, 2007, the marathon will attract thousands to the shores of Huntington Beach.
2006
PRESS RELEASE "'Tis the Season for Wheelchairs"
September 26, 2006
The Free Wheelchair Mission is launching a special campaign to provide the gift of mobility to over 70,000 people this holiday season.
PRESS RELEASE "Free Wheelchair Mission is Lifting Iraqi Citizens off
the Ground!"
April 5, 2006 Free Wheelchair Mission is working with Col. Randy Hart
and his 322 Civil Affairs Brigade unit in a humanitarian effort to distribute
wheelchairs to meet a desperate need in Iraq.
PRESS RELEASE "Currahee
Armor Sponsors 'Free Wheelchair' Mission"
Life in a war-torn country can
be hard. The life of a disabled child living in a war-torn country is
even harder. Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers made life
a little easier Feb. 8 for a young Iraqi girl who suffers from cerebral
palsy when they delivered a free wheelchair in Baladiat, Iraq.
PRESS RELEASE "Marathoners Race
for Mission"
2/15/06 - For an event that was rumored to have
run its last race a year ago, the recent Pacific Shoreline Marathon came
back bigger, better and more emotional than ever. And in the process,
it raised money for a charitable group based in Costa Mesa that provides
wheelchairs to people with disabilities in developing countries.
PRESS RELEASE
"Run for Mobility" Makes Major Global Impact
[Huntington Beach, CA] Pacific Shoreline Marathon and Free Wheelchair
Mission have teamed up to raise funds to send thousands of wheelchairs overseas
to physically disabled people in underdeveloped countries.
2005
PRESS
RELEASE "Free Wheelchair Mission’s Founder nominated for
Reader’s
Digest '2005 Hero of the Year'"!Costa
Mesa, CA [December 14, 2005] Reader’s
Digest has recently announced Free Wheelchair Mission’s President
and Founder Don Schoendorfer as a nominee for the 2005 Hero of the
Year honors, which will be awarded on March 9th.
PRESS RELEASE
"Pacific Shoreline Marathon Goes on a Free Wheelchair Mission!
"
October 2005
Pacific Shoreline Marathon and Free
Wheelchair Mission have teamed up to raise funds to send thousands of wheelchairs
overseas to physically disabled people in underdeveloped countries.
PRESS
RELEASE "Free Wheelchair
Mission Distributes Wheelchairs to Iraq!"
Costa Mesa, CA [August 17, 2005]—Free
Wheelchair Mission recently shipped a container of 550 wheelchairs
to the port of Shuwaikh, Kuwait in a momentous humanitarian mission to aid
Iraq’s
disabled and poor.
PRESS RELEASE "President
Bush Praises the work of Free Wheelchair Mission!"
Costa Mesa, CA [July 28, 2005]Free Wheelchair Mission founder Dr. Don
Schoendorfer received a phone call last week from what first appeared
to be a friend playing a prank on him.
PRESS RELEASE "Free Wheelchair Mission Founder
Honored with Medallion for Entrepreneurship Award" March 3, 2005 Free
Wheelchair Mission founder Dr. Don Schoendorfer has been chosen by
Beta Gamma Sigma.
2004
PRESS RELEASE "India/United
Nation International Day for the Disabled" - December 7, 2004
India, itself burdened with over 20 million
immobile, is Free Wheelchair Missions’ launch point this year.
Articles
2007
Helping Others, One Small Cup at a Time
November 11, 2007 Lemonade has long been the drink of choice on hot summer days, but last week several groups of young volunteers found a way to make lemonade quench more than thirst.
Vineyard Church Sends Wheelchairs to Vietnam
October 30, 2007 Some mountain bike tired attached to a plastic lawn chair can mean new life to someone in an impoverished country who doesn't have access to a wheelchair.
Nicolai Reaches the Top
September 14, 2007 When 13-year-old Nicolai Calabria made it to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the first thought that went through his head was, “I wish this headache would go away.”
No Human Being Should Have to Crawl Through Life
October 2007 In July Don Schoendorfer greeted a visitor to his Free Wheelchair Mission in Irvine, CA, with his leg in a cast and his torso in a brace.
Peabody boy on mi$$ion for peak time atop Kilimanjaro
August 23, 2007 Nicolai Calabria, born with only one leg, will set out for the top of Kilimanjaro on Tuesday with his father on a special mission. The Peabody Middle School seventh-grader is trying to raise at least $25,000 for The Free Wheelchair Mission.
Giving mobility to world's poor
July 19, 2007
Free Wheelchair Mission event Tuesday in Costa Mesa will raise funds for the nonprofit's mission to donate wheelchairs.
U.S. lawmaker lends support to Free Wheelchair Mission
July 3, 2007 U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt visited Joplin’s Ewert Park on Monday to talk about the Free Wheelchair Mission
Free Wheelchair Mission Crosses Country
June 8, 2007 "You can tell he's been a crawler for years and look at his knees, you can tell he's been using his upper extremities and dragging his knees," said Dr. Michael Bayer of Free Wheel Chair Mission.
Wheelchair drive takes biking duo across U.S.
June 6, 2007 Mike Bayer has a mighty tender backside these days. Biking about 100 miles a day will do that.
Etnies Girl Surfer Mary Osborne Gives Back in Costa Rica
February 15, 2007 etnies Girl surfer Mary Osborne will take part in the seventh annual Robert August Surf & Turf charity event this month in Costa Rica, where she will participate in the distribution of wheelchairs provided by Free Wheelchair Mission.
Costa Rica Wheelchair Distribution - Endless Mission - OC Register
February 14, 2007
...But then I read the press release and to my delight it wasn’t about Robert being “in” a wheelchair at all. He is involved with the Free Wheelchair Mission and is helping with the distribution of a shipment of 550 free wheelchairs in Costa Rica.
Newman Hoops Star Relishes New Calling - The Wichita Eagle January 30, 2007
Once he got past the environment -- and that was no small task, standing in a small hut in the slums of Chennai, India. . .
2006
Charity Meets Ingenuity - USA TODAY December 19, 2006
It's the season of giving, and this year U.S. Navy Cmdr. Jimmy Cox gets to use his job in Iraq to spread some holiday cheer.
Wheelchair Mobility Awareness at UCR - October 20, 2006
Dr. Michael Bayer, co-founder of the non-profit humanitarian organization, Free Wheelchair Mission, will speak at UC Riverside on October 23, 2006, at 1:00 p.m. at Bourns College of Engineering, Room A 265.
AARP chief foresees a busy and revolutionary future for baby boomers - The Arizona Republic Oct 9, 2006
Bill Novelli, the top guy at AARP, wants baby boomers to know they're sitting pretty.
Wheelchairs: New Design
Aids Poor - August 2006
When
13-year-old Balaji watched other children running and
playing, he felt depressed. Both his legs were affected
by polio early in his life. To get around, he had to crawl
or depend on his family to carry him.
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION - May
25, 2006 Dover-Sherborn Press
The fourth-grade class at Charles River School in Dover is putting forth
all their efforts to raise funds for the Free Wheelchair Mission, a nonprofit
organization founded in 1999.
He Saw a Need - LA Times March 3, 2006
Don Schoendorfer would have sworn pastor Kenton Beshore was talking directly
to him that Sunday morning as he described "the fool's game" to
his large Mariners Church congregation in Irvine.
Gift of Mobility - 2006 March Issue of Rotary News in India
Necessity is the mother of invention. True, and inventions like the wheelchair can be called a blessing in disguise for those with serious ailments in the leg.
American Heroes: Soldiers
Build Wheelchairs for Iraqis - CNSNews.com - February 4, 2006
U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq have distributed more than 1,000
free wheelchairs to disabled Iraqis since July 2005, according to a non-profit
group that donates the chairs.
2005
LECOM Student Organization, LECOM CARES, Helps Those in Need - December 8,
2005
LECOM CARES will host a Fundraiser Dinner at the Bel-Aire Hotel at 6 pm on
Thursday, December 8.
NEWS-HERALD.COM "Drive to
Aid the Disabled Rolls On" November 7, 2005
In July, the Rev. Glen Warner expressed a hope to "mobilize the community," in
a common goal - to raise enough money to send 5,500 free wheelchairs
through the Free Wheelchair Mission to Third World countries.
America's
Most Wanted "Plastic Lawnchair and Bike Wheels Are All It Takes"
In 1979, Don Schoendorfer and his wife, Laurie, were
vacationing in Morocco when they came upon a sight neither of them would
ever forget...
ASSIST
NEWS SERVICE "President Bush Praises Free Wheelchair
Mission " Sept
19, 2005
It took some doing to get the unusual-looking mobility device past security
and into the Oval Office.
VINDY.COM
"Group Works to Supply Wheelchairs for Needy" August 28, 2005
The disabled poor just want to be out of the dirt where rats and snakes
are.
DAILY PILOT "On a Mission for Mobility" August 10, 2005
Local man distributes wheelchairs in developing countries; President
Bush heard about his efforts and invited him to Washington...
READERS DIGEST "Free Wheels" July
2005
Barely awake, Don Schoendorfer stepped onto the cold cement floor of
his garage at 4:00am. Determined to create the world's cheapest wheelchair...
THE
AARP BULLETIN "An Inventor's Ticket to Ride" February
2005
In 1999 Don Schoendorfer, an engineer in Santa Ana, CA, decided to devote
himself to helping ...
2004
THE NEWTOWN BEE "An Alternative
Way to Celebrate
the Holidays" December 22, 2004
Brooke Waltzer, an eighth grader at Fraser Woods Montessori School, recognizes
the face of privilege when she looks into a mirror...
ORANGE
COUNTY REGISTER "The Morning Read: Mobile Hope" December 21,
2004
Santa Ana inventor Don Schoendorfer's free wheelchairs
provide mobility for disabled people in impoverished lands.
LYNDEN
TRIBUNE "Local Woman Trying to Raise Money, Awareness for Wheelchair
Mission" 11/24/04
Meredith Moyer has been appointed to governor's committee on disabilities
and employment...
"GIFT OF
TRANSFORMATION" Holiday Campaign - Nov 2, 2004
25,000 Wheelchairs Donated to the World this
holiday season, More Than Doubling Last Christmas’ Efforts!
ALL WOMAN MAGAZINE
carries the story of Susan Shaw and how her love for
the people of Fiji has been changing lives.
LOS ANGELES TIMES "Going the
Extra Thousands of Miles" - February 4, 2004
Newport Beach
woman says wheelchairs taken to Fiji are
like a "miracle under a mango tree" to the poor and disabled living on its
islands.
FIJI NEWS "Wheelchair Donation to Benefit Poor"- February 1, 2004
An American group
has donated 550 wheelchairs to a religious organisation for distribution
to the poor and needy people in the country.
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