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Lewis told the crowd at Big Creek Country Club that his AWM buys 280 wheelchairs as long as directly from contractors when the wheelchairs still are packaged in ocean-going boating containers.

Because we deal directly with the manufacturers, we get wheelchairs that would normally spend $500 each, for $150 every," Lewis said during his speech. "That spend includes shipping the chairs to their destination."Lewis was in Mountain Home to invite Rotarians to combine him and others on one upcoming tumble to Mexico to deliver wheelchairs.

People who go with us on these trips come back with these prodigious stories of how receiving wheelchairs positively impacts peoples’ lives," Lewis said. "Come and see what your $150 does because something and you will be amazed.

Some Mountain Home Rotarians have done exactly that, going aboard trips to Jamaica and Mexico.Dave Matty, a local union membership, has worked above trips to deliver wheelchairs with AWM apt Costa Rica, Mexico and Jamaica.It alterations your life namely what it does," Matty said of the trips. "When you watch a child obtain a seat and that big smile lights up their face, it brings tears to your eyes, they’re so elated."

Lewis said AWM does do some work among the United States as well for universal work.We do work here in the states, local work," Lewis said. "That’s also essential, but there are places in the earth that have a much greater need with administrations less able of providing for the need.

There are some countries AWM won’t go in because rampant corruption manner groups favor AWM must pay meaningful bribes to import donated supplies. A wheelchair that would cost AWM $150 to send in normally, costs $1,200 in Palestine and $1,700 in Ghana due to various "medium men" in the process, he said.