Ato Mulu receives his wheelchair

Ato Mulu, Director of Public Relations for the Hossana Water Management Office was happy to receive his wheelchair. For several years he has been walking on his hands (in leather slippers) and knee-pads to and from work. He is the first of 100 recipients to be provided with a wheelchair through the cooperative efforts of CBF missionary, Dee Donalson; Ato Wondimu(also in photo), Academic Dean at the Kale Heywet Ministerial Training College in Hosanna, Ethiopia; Gail Thompson with the organization, "Joni and Friends; Wheels for the World, who provided the wheelchair.
This is the first of 101 wheelchairs to be given to recipients living in the region of Hossana, Ethiopia. Shortly after the Wheelchair was received to be taken by Dee to Ethiopia Sept. 25th,
she had a call from Gail letting her know that there were 100 more to be picked up at Norton Correctional Institute in Norton, Kansas.
Steve Ewing, at Compassionate Alliance, was contacted and one of his drivers, who had just unloaded supplies in Texas for Ike Hurricane victims went directly to Norton, Kansas and brought the wheelchairs back to their headquarters in Ocala, FL where they have been placed into a shipping container to be sent to Ethiopia with a prefabricated 8-room school building; also for children living in Hossana, Ethiopia for a Kindergarten started at the Ministerial College campus by Dee.
A great BIG thanks goes to a donor of the Sanibel Community Church who wishes to remain anonymous. He paid for the shipping of the wheelchairs which Compassionate Alliance provided for half the normal shipping charges from Kansas to Florida. The shipping from the U.S. to Ethiopia and the cost of the school building, which will be put up in five days by a team from Compassionate Alliance, will also need to be supported financially.
Dee has experienced the new trend in missions in the 21st Century, first hand; as CBF is all about bridging serving individuals and organizations to make a world of difference in Global missions. As Rob Nash of CBF has explained, the missionary is the Body of Christ moving the Great Commission into all the World....