Freedom Wheelchairs

<body bgcolor="#FFFFEC"> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><img src="images/1.jpg" width="307" height="250" align="right">The Chiang Mai Disabled Center</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“Freedom” Wheelchair Workshop was founded in order to: </font></strong></p> <ol> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Provide <strong>free</strong> mobility aids to needy disabled families living in rural and remote areas of northern Thailand (including ethnic minorities and refugees from Burma).</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Design mobility aids around individual needs rather than force users to adapt to the device or chair.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Teach disabled persons how to make their own mobility aids as well as develop self esteem and professional disabled employment.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Provide wheelchair maintenance and repair for our own products as well as to provide repair service to others.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Provide home-visit mobility training, physical therapy, and health education to the families of disabled persons living in rural and remote areas.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Provide self-help published information in Thai to people with mobility problems.</font></li> </ol> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <p><strong><img src="images/2.jpg" width="250" height="167"></strong></p> <p><strong>Currently we:</strong></p> </font> <ol> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Employ a workshop staff of 5 disabled persons plus our own disabled physical therapist.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Produce individually sized walkers; wheeled walkers; standard wheelchairs; 3-wheel all terrain wheelchairs; cerebral palsy “buggies” for children; CP wheeled-walkers; amputee skateboards; stand-up work stations for children with CP; padded security harnesses; wheelchair cushions; wheelchair tables; ramps; and special needs chairs.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Provide professional home care visits to disabled families all over rural north Thailand.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Provide <strong>free</strong> maintenance service for the mobility products we make.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Do not sell our products. We give them away <strong>free</strong> to families in need.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Remain the publishers of Thailand’s only “Wheelchair User Manual”.</font></li> <li><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Innovate and design mobility aids using low tech, locally available materials.</font></li> </ol> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/3.jpg" width="334" height="250"> </font><span lang=DE style='mso-ansi-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span lang=DE style='mso-ansi-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span lang=DE style='mso-ansi-language:DE'><o:p> <strong><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/5.jpg" width="167" height="250" align="right">Sponsorship: </font></strong> </o:p></span></p> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our program providing free mobility aids to needy families is made possible by our “Wheelchair Sponsorship” program. Sponsoring one wheelchair (including all design) costs $245 U.S. This price includes chair; home visits for measuring, training, therapy and service; our free Thai language publications; and free wheelchair service for the products we make. If you would like to provide mobility to a needy disabled person and become a wheelchair sponsor, our bank information is as follows:<br> Fixed Bank Account Number 501-1-13375-7<br> Account Name: Foundation To Encourage The Potential Of Disabled Persons<br> Siam Commercial Bank, 17 Thapae Road, Chiang Mai 50100, Thailand</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> For questions or additional information, our email address is: assist@loxinfo.co.th<br> The Foundation maintains our link website at: www.infothai.com/disabled<br> Our mailing address is: 195/197 Ban Tanawan, Moo 8<br> Tambon Sanpheeseu, Amphur Muang<br> Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>References:</strong><br> Some of our partners include Liliane Fonds, Holland; Abilis Foundation, Finland; Arthur Schultz Foundation, USA; and Motivation Wheelchairs, Bristol, England<br> </font></p> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/7.jpg" width="130" height="250"> <img src="images/6.jpg" width="190" height="250"> <img src="images/8.jpg" width="257" height="250"> </font></p> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> <p align="center"><span class=highlight><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Foundation to Encourage the Potential of Disabled Persons</font></span></span><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><br> 195/197 Ban Tanawan, Moo 8, Tambon Sanpheeseu<br> Amphur Muang, Chiang Mai 50300<br> THAILAND<br> <br> Telephone: 66-053-852172<br> Fax: 66-053-240935.<br> </span><span lang=DE style='font-size:7.5pt;mso-ansi-language:DE'>E-mail: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a href="mailto:assist@loxinfo.co.th" onmouseover="MM_displayStatusMsg('Send an e-mail right NOW!! to: assist@loxinfo.co.th');return document.MM_returnValue" onmouseout="MM_displayStatusMsg('Foundation\'s history and staff');return document.MM_returnValue"><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:DE'>assist@loxinfo.co.th</span></a></span><span lang=DE style='mso-ansi-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></font><span lang=DE style='mso-ansi-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </body>