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Don Schoendorfer
I am Don Schoendorfer the President and Founder of Free Wheelchair Mission. Our non-profit, humanitarian, faith-based organization has been dedicated to providing free wheelchairs to people with disabilities from developing nations. Since 2001 we have distributed over 900,000 wheelchairs in 93 countries. Our mission is to become the world class provider in mobility by changing the lives of 100,000 people annually. Over the years we have designed and fabricated three different wheelchairs, and while we are confident that they remain intact for a couple years, the inevitable truth is that they due break down after about five years. One of the issues we have faced is that there is a lack of feedback on where failure occurs the most on our wheelchairs.
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