Worldwide Wheelchairs.

• Position: San Francisco, California - Brief Article

San Francisco

Ally of Mwanza, Tanzania, test-drives a handcrafted wheelchair made by the Africa Wheelchair Project, an offshoot of Whirlwind Wheelchair International. Founded in 1989 at San Francisco State University, Whirlwind Wheelchair aims to fill a vital need in the Third World. "Twenty million disabled people in developing countries need wheelchairs, but less than 1 percent own or have access to them," the group says. Wheelchair-building classes are taught each semester at the university and those who complete the program go on to set up wheelchair-making workshops in other countries...