June 22, 2009

This Mission News Network features The Mission Society's involvement with distribution of PET Vehicles in Zambia.  Click on this link to read the story: http://www.mnnonline.org/article/12822

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Yulisa is a 10 year-old girl in Nicaragua with cerebral palsy.  She cannot use her legs and has only partial use of her left arm.  Although able to sit up well and fully use her right hand, she was unable to grip the left drive handle on the junior PET. Without this ability, she would not be able to use the PET. 

Marlin Schmidt, one of Tampa PET workshop volunteers that visited Nicaragua on a mission trip this past November, took her to a prosthesis lab where she was measured for a wrist brace which will enable her to have full use of the PET. If necessary her hand can be tied to the handle until such time as she gains the necessary strength and coordination to propel herself.  She is all smiles now that she has a new found freedom!

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November 16, 2008

The PETs to Guatemala have arrived: Three volunteers from Columbia
will go the week of Nov. 16 to help assemble and distribute the container
of PETs plus wheelchairs.

Gary Moreau, Thomas Trabue and Terrance Furstenau

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November 25, 2008

"We were amazed at how these PETs go together so easily and how
easily they are propelled. WOW! WHAT A SURPRISE to see all the clothes and
toys stuffed in the box with the PETs. The Chaldians will so appreciate
the extreme blessings in the container...in the name of Jesus
Christ....

Thank you is absolutely inadequate to express the thanks that will come from the 300 plus recipients and their families in eastern Chad and Darfur refugees."

(Note:  Both wheelchairs and PETs were sent via Hope Haven International Ministries.)

Neil and Pam Donoghue

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