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
San Francisco State
Diverse – October 2011
Ralf Hotchkiss teaches a wheelchair design and fabrication class at San Francisco State University and enlists the help of students in continually improving wheelchair designs for the developing world. Read The Story Here. … [Read more...] about Diverse – October 2011
Mission Local – October 2011
Ralf Hotchkiss experiences the travails of a wheelchair rider on San Francisco public transit. Read The Story Here. … [Read more...] about Mission Local – October 2011
It’s Not About Wheelchairs
It's Not About Wheelchairs (.pdf available here)By Marc Krizack, Whirlwind Executive Director Building an Inclusive Development Community: A Manual on Including People with Disabilities in International Development Programs, Heinicke-Motsch, Karen and Susan Sygall, editors, Mobility International, USA, 2003 Chapter 4.1. 8 pages. People wanting to provide … [Read more...] about It’s Not About Wheelchairs