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July Newsletter

  By AT | August 28, 2020 - 1:47 am | ,
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Below is one of the stories included in the July Newsletter. Make sure to read the rest about the Miracle happening in Kampala. Then scroll down and see the next post. They are out of order, but probably in the right order for understanding our excitement as to God is up to with His Wheels. You can read the July Newsletter by clicking here.

COVID – 19 Cancellation

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were preparing to send a trike to STARS Uganda in July, via College Church, Wheaton’s short-term mission team. This delivery was extra special because Nancy, a physical therapist who has been an integral part of our HWI trike team,was leading the trip. She was delivering it to Sylvia Kalyebara, the Founder of STARS Uganda, and a friend of His Wheels and Nancy.

I met Sylvia Kalyebara, a Social Worker, over a decade ago when she arrived in the USA, to join her husband, Nick, who was studying at Wheaton College. As Sylvia and I were forming a friendship, from the moment she learned about HWI and our trike, she began asking herself, “Where are all those with disabilities in Uganda?”

Knowing Sylvia had a growing interest in learning more about serving those with disabilities, I introduced her to College Church’s STARS program, and to Nancy. When Sylvia returned to Uganda, she began STARS Uganda, a Christian non-governmental organization, for walking alongside people affected by disabilities. I continue to encourage and advise Sylvia, through prayer, emails, etc. Nancy has also encouraged Sylvia in countless ways, including visiting her in Uganda.

Kasimu, a seven-year-old Ugandan, was to receive the trike. He recently said to his mother, who was limiting his crawling around to play, “Mom . . . I am not lame; just let me play with my friend. Do you expect me to play on your back all day?” When I heard this story, I thought about how much independence, freedom and mobility the trike will bring him. It would get him off his mom’s back, that’s for sure!

Today’s email connection

  By AT | July 1, 2019 - 9:19 pm |
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Today His Wheels International received the following email. “Hello. I am an RN and the President of a non profit charity . . . making a big impact in resource limited areas in Africa. In November 2019 our team will travel to northern Ghana to start a project called the ‘Ability Project'” They partner with an ngo there and have been talking about trying to build hand-pedaled tricycles as the need is great and they are very difficult to find. She has acessed the HWI’s blueprints and wondered if we have a trike to send with them. She wrote, “Thank you for what you are doing! L”
 
After talking by phone, we shared our trike coloring book pages and our first hand-pedaled trike children’s story for them to use as they also do disability awareness and literacy

University Contacts

  By AT | December 18, 2018 - 3:55 pm | ,
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Yesterday Alice had a great time interacting with our Messiah College contact. Through the relationship building times we’ve spent, Messiah sent us a contact to a student at Taylor University (TU). We have had a trike at TU for some time, but due to a variety of things student trike projects haven’t taken off. After talking with our Messiah contact, Alice talked with a TU student about a trike project as he explores junior and senior engineering projects. Please pray with us for God to use His Wheels for his glory in his ways and his time.

The Impact of a Coloring Book Page

  By AT | November 12, 2018 - 6:15 pm |
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While at The Compass Church yesterday, Big J, our trike ambassador, who lives with Down’s Syndrome, came up to Alice and said, “Big A (as only he can do!) and with a big grin on his face handed me his colored trike page. I was overcome with joy by such a precious gift from my friend, who has been advocating for His Wheels Trikes since our inception. It was as if I’d been given one of the best Christmas gifts ever.

Thank Big J for sharing your big heart and your coloring skills with me. It will hang on my fridge, protected in plastic.

This coloring sheet is impacted lived around the world already, and yesterday it made a full circle as Big J handed his colored sheet back to me.

If you haven’t downloaded your coloring page yet you can do so by clicking here.

 

Saturday, Oct. 20th Maker Day Report

  By AT | October 22, 2018 - 9:33 pm |
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The Maker Day was great. I thought there were lots of people who visited us in the 3 hour time slot at Wheaton Public Library. Today the presenters received an email that said,
“Hi, Presenters!
 
Thank you all for being a part of our first Maker Day! We had a blast. All we heard from attendees was how much they loved all the stations!
 
We estimate that between 400 and 600 people attended the event. You all touched so many people in our community and helped them learn something new. We truly couldn’t have done this without all of you.
 
We’re hoping to make this an annual event so if you’d like to be a part of it in the future or know someone else that would love to have a station, keep your eyes out for information next year.
 
Thank you again. It was wonderful to meet all of you and I hope you had as much fun as we did!”
 

Coloring Book Page

  By AT | October 18, 2018 - 6:56 pm |
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Thanks to Kristina Matson, an art student at College of DuPage, we have our first coloring book page. We will have the coloring book page available this Saturday for the Makers Day at the Wheaton Public Library.  It is also a big step towards our next dream of having a coloring book and an illustrated children’s book.

Feel free to make copies of the colored .pdf copy and the coloring pdf copy and use it for disability awareness in your own group.