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
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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
Whirlwind Wheelchair Project with CIR in Afghanistan
Whirlwind and the Center for International Rehabilitation conducted a six-day training workshop in Kabul, Afghanistan, in June 2005 that focused on skills such as wheelchair assembly and repair, fitting and user assessment. The goal of this project was to test a distribution strategy that combined central fabrication with local assembly, fitting and delivery. During the initial … [Read more...] about Whirlwind Wheelchair Project with CIR in Afghanistan