HWI partnered with Slipstream International Ministries. In the village of Kalukembe, Angola where the aftermath of 27 years of civil war remains visible, with bombed buildings, abandoned tanks, crippled victims, and extreme poverty, not too far is Antonia, with a bright smile, and a strong spirit who left her wheelchair behind and embarked on her new path with an HWI trike.
This video was produced by Ife Alade, a Roosevelt University Journalism student who did an Internship with HWI in 2013.
In January 2013, we sent a His Wheels International trike kit via Messiah College’s Collaboration in Pennsylvania to a SIM Rehabilitation site in Mahadaga, Burkina Faso, Africa. While there for a January course, a couple of engineering students, along with some nationals, welded the trike together. John, Messiah’s engineering trip faculty advisor, said, “It was done on a questionably ‘flat’ concrete floor, with a square, tape measure, and the front fork trike template. We built it with good results.” (more…)