ur manufacturing facility at Wangara, Western Australia, equipped with the generosity of many donors, and staffed with enthusiastic volunteers, has the capacity to manufacture many more wheelchairs than it produces. Our present output of up to 250 wheelchairs per month is only limited by the extent of your generosity. Anything that can help with materials - and the obvious one is money - will help send more wheelchairs. Because of committed support for our factory overheads we can claim that each $100 Australian, (US$80, €60, £42) will build another wheelchair. Money Please send donations to: Wheelchairs for Kids PO Box 1175 Wangara DC 6947 Western Australia Make tax deductable cheques payable to "Wheelchairs for Kids" Or use our printable donation form Fundraising We welcome your interest in working to help raise funds to build more wheelchairs, but we do ask that you contact our Director of Operations to discuss our charity licence requirements. You may then find that we can assist with logos, other images, a donation form and possibly in other ways. Images can be copied by selecting, then a right click and "save picture as" from the menu presented. Recycling A considerable number of wheelchairs have been funded with money raised form the sale of scrap aluminium collected by supporters. Virtually any aluminium is worth collecting including old window frames, showers screens, industrial off-cuts but the most common is the common drink can. Ring-pulls on Aluminium cans are often mistakenly thought to be made of the expensive metal Titanium and were originally thought to be useful in the making of prostheses in third world countries. There is no reason to separate the aluminium ring-pull from its can other than that cans do take up a lot of room unless crushed and may create problems with odours and ants. Many people drop off the cans with ring-pulls attached, at our workshops. Aluminium ring-pulls are a part of our recycling drive, but it takes about 276,000 ring pulls at about $1 per kilo to raise the $100 to build a wheelchair. Many schools wishing to support our project collect only the ring-pulls and not the cans for the reasons mentioned above. In this way the students are able to be involved and become more aware of the needs of others in developing countries. Our only collection point for recycling is at our workshops here in Wangara, Western Australia. Generally it is not economical to send any material to us by mail or carrier. Support for the project is best achieved by selling any recyclable metals to a local merchant and sending to us a cheque made out to 'Wheelchairs for Kids'. Note: Not all ring-pulls are Aluminium. Many ring-pulls from steel pet food and other food cans are steel and of no value. If a magnet attracts the ring-pull then it is of no value. Aluminium is not attracted to a magnet. Materials If you have an involvement in production, supply or procurement related to light metal products manufacture and you would like to help our project contact either our Director of Operations or our Factory Manager. Schools There are two faces to the involvement of schools in the Wheelchairs for Kids project. Firstly the opportunity to work for a cause devoted to helping other children - many without access to schools - improve their lives. Secondly our project draws attention to more general social and world issues. Many schools and their teachers support us. For Website comments,error reports or suggestions, just click