Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Wheelchair GiveAway IN Tawau

In the city of Tawau,
we have three LDS Charities projects ongoing. One of these projects is a wheelchair one. LDS Charities has donated almost 1500 wheelchairs to people on the Island of Borneo this year!!! Our main partner in these wheelchair projects if Cheshire Homes. They arrange for the distribution of chairs to cities other than KK . Jennifer Liew(Director of Cheshire Homes in Borneo) and Elder Larson arranged for 73 chairs to be distributed in Tawau. This is a picture of some of the recipients there who received chairs after being assessed. This picture was taken after the closing ceremony. Practically all of the recipients were elderly Chinese. This is Elder Larson speaking at the closing ceremony. He told them of all the projects that LDS Charities has done for peoples all over the world. This is one of the few times that he spoke without a translator, because most of them understood English.


These are two brothers who received wheelchairs. Their parents were so grateful. The young lady in the blue shirt is Ashley who is doing volunteer humanitarian work in Malaysia and is sponsored by the Lutheran Church. She is stationed in Sandakan and rode the bus to Tawau to help us with the wheelchair assessments. Thanks, Ashley!!




This was the night before the assessment/giveaway. We were trying to train volunteers to do the assessments. We thought that we had 20+ volunteers to train, but later found out that they were simply relatives of the recipients!!! Oh, well........ Red Crescent Society of Tawau was in charge of the planning and evidently misunderstood. But it worked out okay--usually does when you work for the Lord!!







This was the Newspaper article in the paper the following day. Really good coverage for LDS Charities and the church.








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