Safety First, Second and ThirdSolar Power Tricycle DevelopmentWheelchairs to Oglala Lakota AmputeesNext Version of the Electric RoughRiderLetter from a Grateful Recipient of the Frank Barham Memorial FundKellogg Racial Equity Challenge 2030 Dear Friends and Supporters, During 2021, Whirlwind returned to its roots of assisting small-scale RoughRider wheelchair factories, … [Read more...] about 2021 Annual Newsletter
Ralf Hotchkiss
2020 Annual Newsletter
Pilgrimage of the Camino de SantiagoA Request from HCBH hospital in HaitiWhirlwind: What Can Come Next?Designing 21st Century Vehicles For Persons With DisabilitiesA Request from Fort Larned National Historic Site Dear Friends and Supporters, It is now December 2020, eight months since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown. The sale and distribution of Whirlwind … [Read more...] about 2020 Annual Newsletter
2019 Annual Newsletter
Letter from the ChairpersonResponses from Recent RoughRider RecipientsA RoughRider for an Indigenous GrandmotherOne World Project in MoroccoSubsidized Wheelchairs from the Frank Barham Fund … [Read more...] about 2019 Annual Newsletter
PBS NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
PBS NewsHour covers Whirlwind Wheelchair International's efforts to send low-cost durable wheelchairs to Haiti for amputees after the January 2010 earthquake Ralf Hotchkiss, is speaking the former headquarters at SFSU. Transcription for this video: Whirlwind Wheelchair on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer reported by Spencer Michels … [Read more...] about PBS NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
What Makes the RoughRider a Different Kind of Wheelchair? (Part I)
Whirlwind Wheelchair puts users in the center of the design process. As such, the RoughRider has evolved out of the most common user needs we found. This is the first installment in a series that highlights some of the design features that make the RoughRider a dynamic chair. So what makes the RoughRider a different kind of wheelchair? Solid flexible all … [Read more...] about What Makes the RoughRider a Different Kind of Wheelchair? (Part I)