To donate your wheelchair or if you need a wheelchair or to make a
donation towards this project and receive a tax deduction, please
contact Alix Kubik at alix@lifenets.org or call at 317 536-5219 (Monday
through Friday 9 to 9 Eastern Time).

LifeNets
The Wheelchair Project
3707 Turfway Ct.
Indianapolis, IN 46228

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Alix Kubik is our wheelchair coordinator. She will make every effort to match up available wheelchairs with those who need them. She is a graduate of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan with a Masters Degree in Social Work.

Read some of our happy wheelchair stories......
 
April 9, 2008
 
Alix,
 
My chair arrived yesterday. I must say it has been worth the wait.  Never in a million years did I expect to receive such a nice chair.  It was everything I could dream of.  The tilt system is a dream because it allows me to take the pressure of arthritis off my back and get some relief.  I can even drive titled somewhat.  While that option alone makes it a great gift there is one far greater.  The gift of mobility.  I can only walk about a quarter of a mile before my feet start to hurt excruciatingly and it allows me to be pain free and to get out there and do what I have to do.  No more waiting for rides, now I can take myself.  Although I've yet to do it because I'm still getting used to the chair, I look forward to being able to attend church again because of my chair.
 
I just wanted to say thanks to the nice lady, her husband, and her dad who have blessed me with such an awesome gift.
 
Sincerely.
 
Happy in Phoenix

April 3, 2008

Another nice card to us--

To the Wheelchair Program --

We can't thank you enough for your agency and the wheelchair that was provided to Willaim K.  He was truly pleased with the new product and we believe that his quality of life will be improved greatly.

I couldn't help but laugh in a resent conversation between Mr. K and another individual at our facility.  They were jokingly arguing and when "threatened" to be put out of the building he replied, "I will just wheel right back in!" I would say he's pretty happy.

Thank you again for the wheelchair that was given to Mr. K  You are all great ly appreciated!!!

Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Sarah G.
Tamara M.
 

UPDATED April 1, 2008


Donation of Invacare power chair and walker in Aurora, Illinois from Lesley (on left). Her friend Laurie on right helped facilitate this wonderful donation that will give a person mobility that could not have afforded it.

In the first quarter of 2008 LifeNets provides 25 wheelchairs for those who cannot afford them. We're well on the way to another 100 wheelchair year.

 
UPDATED October 26, 2007


Another happy wheelchair delivery. Alix Kubik (right) helps load wheelchair for social worker coming to pick it up for needy recipient in Indianapolis, Indiana.


 
UPDATED October 25, 2007

North Dakota LifeNets Chapter President Pam Redline with husband Ralph with first donated wheelchair from North Dakota.

UPDATED October 22, 2007

A thank you card came today...

                                                                            Blanca"Marisela" Fehr

UPDATED August 29, 2007
 
This is an email we received from recipients of power chair.

Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:59:52 PM
Subject: My Sister's Wheelchair
 
Hello,
 
I am the sister of Joy, whom you recently presented with a power-chair.
 
I just wanted to say thank you, from myself and our entire family, for aiding Joy in such a way. Her life has been full of pain and dependency, and your gesture has gone a long way in making her feel more independent, as well as greatly improving her self-esteem.
 
Thank you very much,

Ronda


UPDATED August 14, 2007
 
This is an email we received from recipients of power chair.
 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:17:04 AM
Subject: Wheelchair pick up
 
My husband and son went to Chicago and picked up the chair on Tuesday. It took them two days to get there and back, but they made it with many stops and a night at a hotel. It was well worth it.  We want to thank you so very, very much for a great Project you have. You gave my husband mobility and the kids just love that Dad can go out and have fun with them on walks and outings. I will get a Picture ready and send in as soon as I can. We wanted to thank you so very much from the bottoms of our hearts. You are great!!!

UPDATED July 11, 2007

LifeNets Wheelchair Coordinator Alix Kubik with daughter-helper Alyssa. Two more pediatric chairs are about to be shipped.
So far in this calendar year we have matched up nearly 50 people with donated chairs of all types: manual, power and pediatric. We want to share this just-received thank you note with you:

Dear Alix,
 

   My chair arrived yesterday. Again thank you so much for helping me. I am truly grateful. It's not often a perfect stranger helps someone they have never met before so to me that is even more special. I see from the address label the chair came from a church, so I would ask one more thing of you ,and that is to pray for me and my family's finances, and maybe someday I can be a blessing to someone else. Every time I'm in the chair I will think of you and where it came from.

 

                             Thanks again,

                             Linda 

UPDATED June 9, 2007

Karen Barbush is the assistant director of the HighPointe Centre and she stores wheelchair that are
dropped off for LifeNets.  We picked up seven chairs this past week.
 

    Institute for Community
    175 S. Highpoint Drive
    Romeoville, Il 60446
    click for map

www.highpointcommunity.com
 

UPDATED May 18, 2007
Curacao, May 15, 2007
 
Dear Alix Kubik,
 
First of all I want to apologize for the delay in keeping you abreast about the wheelchair facilitated by LifeNets and donated by Bernita Robinson. I am now on vacation in Curacao to notice how really happy and satisfied Emita is with her donated wheelchair. She received her wheelchair around the end of December 2006, timely enough to celebrate her 93rd birthday, which she wonderfully enjoyed amidst her children, relatives and friends. As she says, This day was one of her most memorable days of her life.
 
Accompanying this letter you could also see a picture showing Emita sitting in her donated wheelchair and her daughter Liesje alongside her showing their bright moment of happiness and appreciation.
 
Our gratitude and appreciation go out to LifeNets and Alix Kubik and may the Good Lord Richly Bless You.

 
On May 17, 2007 a large Indianapolis trucking company shipped this power chair for us to a needy person in North Carolina.

 

Updated April 16, 2007

 

From Kambani Banda (LifeNets director for Zambia):  (more photos)

 

We traveled to Mapoko to deliver the wheel chair and crutches that LifeNets donated to Mary Chisevente.

 

Mary was born as a normal child in 1956. When she was three, she developed a small blister on her left leg and everybody thought that it was nothing and ignored it. However, it would not go away.  The small blister stayed that way till age 15. It was mid year in 1971 that she started to experience numbness on her right side of the body.

 

The numbness developed into severe dizziness which was later diagnosed as epilepsy. During that year, she fell a number of times sustaining severe bodily injuries. She explained, “like all teenagers, I was full of hopes and dreams, a job in the city, a husband and children.” This hope seemed to fade away when her right leg started to shrivel making it shorter and weaker and later unusable. At this point the family had made several visits to the doctors (medical) without success.

 

It slowly dawned on her that she may not be able to realize her dreams. “The thought being of being crippled for life was discouraging that she thought life was not worth living.” she added tearfully. In desperation her parents even consulted the local medicine men and off course that was very expensive and to no avail.

 

In 2002 she met Mr. Katapya and his wife, our local leaders in Mapoko who explained to her their understanding as to why God allows suffering. It is this explanation that began to bring hope, meaning and purpose into her life and was baptized late in 2003. From then on, she has never missed a Fall Festival or a Sabbath service save when she is ill. She lives about eight kilometers and ‘walks’ on crutches to and from every Sabbath.  Big shame on us who for a miner irritation we miss church.

 

She could not hide her joy when Shirley and I presented the gift of the wheelchair and new, padded and adjustable crutches to her. Asked if she was going to throw away her old crutches, she replied “no, the new crutches are for the going to Sabbath service and the old crutches are for every day work”.

 

This was a very moving ceremony for both me and Shirley and one that we will treasure for the rest of our lives. Thank you for donating these vital limbs to our sister and making us part of the joy of giving.

Updated March 22, 2007

LifeNets delivers power wheelchair to disabled recipient in Greensburg, Indiana who has COPD, congestive heart failure and other problems and cannot afford this type of mobility. It gives us a great deal of joy to be able to make this kind of match.

We also received this nice note from Mercy Housing in Chicago, Illinois for wheelchair we provided:

My sincerest thanks! I don't know what my tenant and I would have done without the wheelchair.

Best regards,

Angela

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