The American Wheelchair Mission is a non-profit organization with a goal to deliver brand new, free wheelchairs and mobility aids to physically disabled children, teens and adults throughout the world who are without mobility or the means to acquire a wheelchair. With a strong focus on the needs of Children in Latin America, the American Wheelchair Mission will continue to change the lives of entire families with the gifts of hope, dignity, freedom and independence.Your participation can make the dreams of children come true! http://www.amwheelchair.org Tyler Hochman, a young man with a big vision, set out to raise the funds to deliver an entire container of 280 wheelchairs to the physically disabled in Israel for his Bar-Mitzvah project. For more information on Tyler, and details on the distribution trip in Israel, please see the article below. Read all about it here: http://www.jewishjournal.com/bar_and_bat_mitzvahs/article/rolling_out_the_mitzvah_20100817/ http://www.amwheelchair.org/news/ In keeping with its mission to build a better world through charitable outreach, the Knights of Columbus has brought together two international aid organizations - Medishare and the American Wheelchair Mission - to provide help for the people of Haiti who were injured in the devastating January earthquake. http://www.amwheelchair.org/news/ Prayers were answered on the trip to Haiti made by the Knights of Columbus and the Global Wheelchair Mission this April. The Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson, joined the group to deliver mobility to the poorest of the poor who have recently suffered so much tragedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8SCj-sxvk0