Last year we wrote to you about our growing concern of helping people with disabilities in the neighborhoods around the Lord’s Food Bank in Juarez, Mexico. One of the immediate needs we had was to purchase a wheelchair-accessible van so we could pick people up and bring them to the Lord’s Clinic for medical care. We’re happy to announce that we were finally able to get that van, thanks to you.
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Our new (used) van equipped with an automated lift for wheelchairs.
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It is a used van but in good condition and with an almost-new wheelchair lift that the previous owners had installed. We are now equipped to pick up as many as 3 patients in their wheelchairs and bring them to the clinic so that they can receive medical care.
Like Jose, who has an ulcerated wound on his hip. We can now bring him to the clinic every week for the medical staff to clean and attend his wound. There are others in wheelchairs who don’t need medical attention each week, but they still ask us to pick them up on Tuesdays (our clinic day) so that they can come to the Food Bank for the hot meal we serve. Eating their chicken soup or burrito, they enjoy the social time and the chance to get out of their houses for a few hours once a week. Priority goes to those needing medical help, but if we can we bring the others along too.
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Jose arriving at the Food Bank so he can go to the Lord’s Clinic.
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This van is such a blessing and has allowed us to help those with physical disabilities in a greater way.