Imagine having a car wreck, or farm accident and ending up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life.
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Imagine having a car wreck, or farm accident and ending up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. After months of rehabilitation, you can hardly wait to return to your own home. Finally, they carry you up the steps to get you in the house.
What a relief, your own bed, familiar surroundings, you feel so much better now. When you try to enter the bathroom you realize your wheelchair cannot get through the doorway, so you head for the bedroom and have the same problem. You go to the kitchen and now sitting in your chair all of the counters are too high and too deep. The utility area, washer and dryer…forget it!
As you contemplate what to do, you decide to go outside, take a few deep breaths and come up with some solutions. You wheel over to the front door and notice the high threshold and steps prevent you from even getting out the front door. You are faced with the fact that many of the choices you took for granted are now being denied. You realize you are a prisoner in your own home; worse yet, a prisoner in just two rooms!
Nobody should be a prisoner in his or her own home. But for many consumers that Access II works with, this has been reality and that’s how they felt! Trapped!
Over the past three years, we have worked with numerous individuals facing many of these same issues – frustration and lack of choices.
Faced with these architectural obstacles, many individuals can’t even get out the front door! Access II’s “Consumer Assistance Fund” is the key to open the door. The result is opportunities for community involvement, education and awareness, and ultimately…freedom for someone.
Community service organizations; ministerial alliance, lumber yards and caring individuals have come together and built 59 ramps and have been involved in 9 home modification projects. Now these individuals can “live in” and “get out of” their own homes.
Current and pending budget cuts threaten this very basic freedom. Now is your chance to get involved and make a difference for someone in our own communities. Make your charitable, tax-deductible donation to Assess II, Consumer Assistance Fund, 611 W. Johnson, Gallatin Missouri.
Your charitable contribution could really help someone out…LITERALLY!
Gary E. Maddox
Executive Director