With help from The Walkabout Foundation, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, who have been designing tough, durable wheelchairs built and used in developing countries since 1979, have delivered 350 Rough Rider chairs to Haiti with another 600 on the way. Easily repaired and built at low cost, the chairs help those injured in the quake live full lives in their communities by ensuring they can navigate them—the Rough Rider is a mountain bike of a wheelchair, helping people clear obstacles like piles of debris, unpaved streets, rocks, and mud.
Watch the video above for footage of its arrival in Haiti (and a demo of it on rough terrain).
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