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Rotary Changes Lives of Mobility-Impaired Ugandans


The Rotary Club of Marietta, led by President Jesse Evans, and Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC), led by Executive Director and Stone Mountain Rotarian Chris Brand, recently teamed to provide mobility equipment for physically disabled Ugandans via Dave Talbot’s Crutches 4 Africa—a humanitarian relief organization that has helped residents of 16 countries in Africa and 10 other countries worldwide.

Dave is a member of the Mountain Foothills RC in Golden CO, and has been shipping mobility devices since 2006. He is a polio survivor and he and his wife wanted to help others who didn't have the surgical opportunities that were available to him to mitigate the results of polio.

In this local project, FODAC collected and furnished more than 3,000 pieces of mobility gear including over 1,500 crutches, 1,000 braces/pads, 360 walkers and 120 wheelchairs. These were temporarily stored in a local warehouse by Marietta Rotarian Richard Cope, Pres. of USA Cargo Services Company, to pack and ship to Uganda. Marietta Rotarians Ben Worley, Dr. John Knox, Church Core, Dan Kirk, Walt Walker, and Past-Presidents Fred Beloin, The Honorable Reuben Green and Jim Kellogg worked with Richard in his warehouse for several days, wrapping and securely packing everything to go into an ocean container that loads out for shipping on February 1. Rotarians in Uganda will conclude this life-changing Rotary outreach by unloading the container and handling the field distribution of its contents to citizens who at best crawl in the dust or depend upon being carried by others.

Posted by Dale Covington
February 3, 2019

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