Ama Wheelies

The vultures step in and devour you. If however you are an elephant the matriarch guards over you. In similar fashion Ama Wheelies we have a story to tell.

2011 has been a difficult first year for Ama Wheelies. A year ago we moved to the Lydenburg cottage and on 27 November 2010 doors opened for the first Quadriplegic home in Mpumalanga! We arrived at a cottage wild and unattended; we cleaned, built ramps and made it a home.

The Lydenburg community welcomed Ama Wheelies at our golf day 14 May. The spring walk 1 September created further awareness but funding remains low. Assistance was there in the form of computers from Vodacom for our training room. Eastern Chrome pledged towards developing our farm and at the same time we had no support from any governmental institution.

Battling on our own we are trying to earn a living fattening pigs, rearing chickens and growing vegetables. Our produce we grow will soon sustain us but it is not yet providing us an income.

Writing to thank the family and friends that have been assisting us we extended the urgent appeal for financial help: would we be trodden down or could we still believe in humanity!

Our letters we wrote telling all we need help just like those anxious calls of the small elephant calling for help and as in a family of Elephants we found loving guardians in a harsh world. Cleaning Africa Thuŝanang  with Mr Midge Wood a dear friend depositing a huge deposit and the goodness continued Tubatse mine, Dhl and several private individuals opened their pockets donating R20 000.00 collectively assuring the survival of Ama Wheelies at least for the next two months.

The story of the baby elephant requires the baby to feed from the mother and start eating on its own. Ama wheelies made new applications with the government department and we look to 2012 with new confidence and apart from government assistance requests we have set up our fax2email campaign and the exciting dance Ama Wheelies will be hosting in 11 February in South Africa’s town of love!

Soon you will be invited with more information but in the same way the little elephant must be taken care of we share this link with our friends, family, and anyone who can continue to help Ama Wheelies to raise money to keep the home floating.

How to enter & win a Nokia N9:

1. Click here and Donate R20.00 towards Ama Wheelies. (1 entry for every R20.00 / $3 donated) Remember to include your full name, surname and email address when making the online donation.

2.  Optional - Follow @AmaWheelies and RT this message: “Win a Nokia N9 http://goo.gl/Va5bl #N9competition #AmaWheelies” (1 additional entry for tweeting this)
3. Optional - Blog about this raffle & share the link via @Amawheelies via twitter. (5 entries per blog post)

Prizes:

2 x Nokia N9 handsets are up for grabs. 1 handset per winner.

Terms: 

1. You can enter as many times as you like.
2. Draw will be done using the software tool at http://www.random.org/
3. Draw will only take place once we reach our goal of R20000.00 raised.
4. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
5. Prize will be delivered via DHL or other suitable courier. Courier fee is kindly sponsored by Nokia South Africa.
6.  All applicable taxes are for the winners account.
7. This raffle is void in countries were such raffles are not legal. Please check your local laws before entering.
8. You must be 18 years old to enter.
9. Anyone who makes a donation of R20.00 and who is eligible to enter according to these terms can win.
10. Winners agree to have their image published on this blog.

It’s fast and easy to enter and 100% of funds raised will benefit the Quadriplegics of Ama Wheelies. So what are you waiting for. Enter today!

We survived our first year!

A year ago a few very brave members of  Team Ama Wheelies moved to the Lydenburg cottage and on 27 November 2010 doors opened for the first Quadriplegic home in Mpumalanga! We arrived at a cottage wild and unattended; we cleaned, built ramps and made it a home.

The Lydenburg community welcomed Ama Wheelies at our golf day 14 May. The spring walk 1 September created further awareness but funding remained low. Assistance was there in the form of computers from Vodacom for our training room. Eastern Chrome pledged towards developing our farm and at the same time we had no support from any governmental institutions.

Battling on our own we are trying to earn a living fattening pigs, rearing chickens and growing vegetables. Our produce we grow on a small scale due to land size limitations will soon sustain us but it does not yet provide us an income. We regularly thank the family and friends that have been assisting us for the last few years with donations and support, without them we would not be were we are today.

Sadly though, family and friends can only do so much.  To make matters worse, promises made by government officials have not materialized, the fact is Ama Wheelies is being overlooked and neglected by local government and we are now forced to write an urgent appeal to anyone who can help Ama Wheelies financially.

People always say “Why did you not ask?”  This letter we write to publicly ask for help. At Ama Wheelies we need help and we ask you to please help in any way. Even if this means tweeting about about this article or sharing it on facebook. We appreciate any help we can get and donations will be acknowledged with a receipt. You may also remain anonymous if you so wish.

Not only is our cause worthy but in addition we are situated in RURAL Mpumalanga, serving DISADVANTAGED poor and DISABLED individuals enabling any donor to qualify for BEE and tax rebate. Our paperwork and record keeping is in order. Ama Wheelies is a section 21 non-profit organization (2008/021003/08) with our NPO number 083-504

Any help or support will be much appreciated. Thank you in advances.

Team Ama Wheelies.

Ama Wheelies is happy to announce that our blog is now available as an easy to use mobile app for Nokia devices.

This means you can now follow our latest news from the palm of your hand on your Nokia smartphone. The application is free to download from the Nokia Ovi Store. We invite you all to take our new blog for a test drive. Please let us know what you think.

To download our app Search for ‘Ama Wheelies’ in Ovi store or point your mobile browser here: http://store.ovi.com/content/143343

Ama Wheelies blogger and friend Simon Botes was  recently named as one of the Top 200 Young People in South Africa by Mail & Guardian. This is a great achievement for Simon and we are excited and happy to have one of the Top 200 youngsters in South Africa helping out here at Ama Wheelies. Congrats Simon!

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