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Reviewed by: jen17
on 06/30/10:
Mission
Push International works to provide sustainable, mobile, communities for people with disabilities in need in Mexico. Push International collects new and used mobility and therapy equipment in the USA, refurbishes, redistributes and personally adjusts each and every piece of equipment to people with disabilities in Mexico who do not have access to services. Push shares a campus in Mazatlan, Mexico with Padres y Compadres. Together we have a wheelchair repair and refurbishing shop staffed all year round to provide sustainable services, adjustments and maintenance to the equipment we deliver.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
Mazatlan, Mexico and surrounding areas.
Target demographics:
We serve poverty stricken individuals and families with disabilities who are living in or around Mazatlan, Mexico. We recycle donated mobility equipment from the USA and donate it to people in Mexico who can not afford the equipment that they so desperately need.
Results to date:
Over the last 4.5 years, Push International has welcomed 18 teams and over 175 volunteers from the USA to our facility in Mexico. Together we have distributed mobility equipment to over 780 people with disabilities. We have employed people with disabilities, provided countless therapy interventions and home programs, modified people’s homes to increase wheelchair accessibility and much much more!
Direct beneficiaries per year: 150+
Indirect beneficiaries per year: 800+
Obstacles:
The cost to store and ship equipment to Mexico is our biggest expense. If you have storage spavce or would like to donate to help defray the costs of getting the necessary equipment to people in need please contact us at info@pushinternational.org Gracias!
With 3 hours a volunteer can:
Someone with 3 hours to volunteer could help us load equipment into a container headed to Mexico, collect equipment in their area, help plan a fundraiser, help in the office.... Contact us, there is plenty of work to be done!