It takes time to build a reputation about something and to be known for that something. In this case the something is the Wheelchair Project of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew which started 19 years ago by 3 “accidents”.
It takes time to build a reputation about something and to be known for that something. In this case the something is the Wheelchair Project of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew which started 19 years ago by 3 “accidents”. The first accident was when Rev. Dr. Webster Edwards invited me to brunch to have a talk about possibilities in Rotary. He revealed the enormous possibilities of international projects and awakened something in me.
The second “accident” came when my wife, Pauline, revealed that when her patients borrowed her wheelchair to get back to their cars they do not want to return her wheelchair so she wanted to know if through Rotary we could help these needy persons who are all over Jamaica.
The third “accident” was when Rotarian Gregory Dix, a Catholic from New Jersey, met me at Immaculate High School for Girls where I was President for the PTA for several years. He offered me some left over wheelchairs to be distributed to the needy in Jamaica. I took the project into our club, and of course we are positioned today as the wheelchair club of Jamaica, having distributed wheelchairs to the value of $269,640,000 to the needy.