Hope Haven

Hope Haven

Hope Haven International is a 501(c)(3) charity organization [cite web
title = Hope Haven Internationalpublisher = Hope Haven Support Foundation
date = 2007-08-11
url = http://www.hopehaven.org/SupportFoundation/Index.cfm
accessdate = 2007-08-11] based in Rock Valley, Iowa, that is best known for its United States and international distribution of refurbished wheelchairs for adults and children. The organization was founded in 1964 as a Christian charity to provide services to disabled persons in its community. [cite web
last = Carew
first = MK
title = United Spinal Partners with International Ministries
work = Action OnLine
publisher = United Spinal Association
date = 2005
url = http://www.unitedspinal.org/publications/action/?p=280
accessdate = 2007-08-11] Hope Haven collects, repairs, and distributes wheelchairs domestically and internationally, in addition to providing rehabilitation and vocational training. The organization relies upon volunteers and prison inmates to transport and refurbish the wheelchairs.

Hope Haven has been refurbishing, and providing shipment and trained personnel to fit wheelchairs, for physcially disabled and poor Palestinian refugee children since 1998, with the political and logistical assistance of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. [cite web
title = Medical Projects
publisher = Palestinian Children's Relief Fund
date = 2001
url = http://www.pcrf.net/medical/Wheelchairs.html
accessdate = 2007-08-11] The costs of wheelchairs is beyond the means of many families, and government funds are also not available, in many countries, such as Romania, served by Hope Haven with donations of wheelchairs and staff to properly fit the wheelchairs to users. [cite web
last = Callison
first = J
title = Wheelchairs Carry Message of Hope; Ministry, Rotary club pair up to touch lives in Romania
work = ArgusLeader.com
publisher = Argus Leader Media
date = 2007-06-12
url = http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/COLUMNISTS0113/707120311/1174
accessdate = 2007-08-11]

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