By Maryam Mehanna | Project Contributor
Dear Alhassan’s Donors,
We do highly thank you for your last donation. You have supported in the change of people’s life. Your support made a change for people who use customized wheelchairs in Egypt. Customized Wheelchairs in Egypt are becoming one of the main pillars in our projects to serve people with mobility issues. Providing a customized wheelchair for a person is providing him with a vital tool to have a balanced life that helps him/her to become independent physically and socially.
Through your donation, you shared in changing a child’s life; this child literally moved from darkness to a bright side of life. Mahmoud’s story has started with one of our volunteers whom helped him to join our community. He lives in a slum in Cairo, it is one of the biggest poor neighborhood in Egypt. Mahmoud suffers from Muscle Atrophy, which means that he has severe weakness in all muscles of his body. This leads him to become a permanent wheelchair user. His family cannot afford buying him a wheelchair. Thus, his mum used to carry him wherever he wanted to go, and they live in a third floor without an elevator. For that reason, he was sitting all his time at home without any social life. Mahmoud’s mum said, “all my dream is that Mahmoud goes to school and be educated as other normal children”.
When we knew Mahmoud’s story, we were eager to be a part of changing his life. Because of your donation, we were able to provide him a wheelchair. Now, Mahmoud is going to school and he is in grade 3. He is becoming very sociable with his friends, he is moving freely. With his wheelchair, he said “I am a butterfly”. His friends started to accept the meaning of “physical differences”. His mum’s back is being saved from carrying him three floors every day to reach their apartment. Now Mahmoud is socially active; he is participating in our events.
Lately we won an honorary award of Zero Project Conference 2019 to acknowledge that we are sustainable in our mission and vision and we are always seeking for the betterment of life for physically challenged people through changing their disability into ability. This Award ceremony was held in the UN premises in Vienna which focused on Independent Living and Political
Participation.
Kindly check the link below for our winning moments & tribute:
https://www.facebook.com/zeroproject.org/videos/558152034671047/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTIwNDI1NDc4MToyMjQ0OTEyMDk4ODkyMjQz/Zero photo
This honorary award is not only for us, it is for you as well our donor. Congratulations for all of us. We urge you to continue supporting our cause and stay loyal donors to our cause through subscribing to a monthly recurring donation option. That will help wheelchair users in Egypt be more confident and accomplished. Please visit our Facebook page to read other success stories:
https://www.facebook.com/AlhassanFDN/
Thank you for believing in the differently abled. :)
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