Disability Rights Romania Project #51901

Motivation Romania Wheelchair Fund

by Fundatia Motivation Romania

Project Report | Jun 2, 2025
Celebrate the Power of Mobility On Children`s Day

By Anca Beudean | Sustainability Director

Mykyta joins friends and teachers on 1st of June

Dear friend of Motivation Romania,

In Romania, June 1^st is a happy occasion each year. Parents and communities celebrate International Children`s Day, and children are happy that the day is all about them, filled with play, friends and good time.

On Children's Day, we continue to celebrate the power of mobility and its impact on children's lives.

We introduce you to Mykyta – a 9-year-old boy from Ukraine who took shelter in Romania, as a refugee. He is now a second-grade student at the "Emil Gârleanu" Special School in Galati.

Before we donated a wheelchair to him, he was a withdrawn, quiet, introverted child. Everything changed when he received a wheelchair adapted to his needs, from the Motivation team in Galati. From that moment on, an obvious transformation began, which even teachers consider surprising. Mykyta turned into an active, cheerful, confident student who is present in everything that involves play, learning and interaction. Because he manages to move safely in his chair and no longer has to ask for help every time to get from one place to another, he always seeks the company of his classmates and happily participates in class activities.

Mobility is not just about movement. It means access to childhood. To education. To friends. To relationships with those around him. It means a life in which a child who says "I want it, too!" can actually participate.

Each year, Motivation gives back hope to more than 1,000 persons with disabilities like Mykyta, by donating wheelchairs and providing wheelchair skills training. The new wheelchair gives them back their personal independence, mobility and the ability to be part of the family and the community again.

Continue to donate to the Wheelchair Fund so that people with mobility needs like Mykyta can regain their hope in a fulfilled life!

Motivation is here to support each wheelchair user on this route, one at a time. As new wheelchair users ask for our help, YOUR donation enables us to continue to support them. Your monthly gift will boost our ability to respond quickly to the ongoing need for appropriate wheelchair donations.

Make a monthly gift of hope and freedom of movement to children and adults with mobility disabilities like Mykyta!

YOU help change lives for the better. Thank you!

Mykyta is happy he is able to join friends in play

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Feb 5, 2025
Andrei's wish for 2025 is to be more independent - can you help?

By Anca Beudean | Sustainability Director

Andrei was more independent this Christmas

Dear friend of Motivation Romania,

Happy New 2025! I hope the new year has started off well for you and your loved ones, bringing good energies, balance and clarity.

With each new person who asks for our help to regain their mobility, we are reminded that balance and clear skies are not easy to come by.

Andrei is thirteen. He was born with a mobility disability and needs a wheelchair to move around. He has been living in a public placement center for children with disabilities since birth. In 2024, he was reunited with his family and they live in a village, in Gorj County.

Our colleagues from the Motivation team in Mehedinti County met Andrei while he was living in the center. The staff there asked for our support with an appropriate mobility equipment for the boy. However, in time, that wheelchair became too small for Andrei.

It thus came to be that he received a powered wheelchair, donated by the local authorities. At first, everyone was enthusiastic about this. However, for Andrei this was not the best solution. He goes to school in the neighboring village and to get there, he has to take the school bus. With the powered wheelchair, he was not able to get on the bus, and it was also difficult to move around in the school and in the classroom.

Asking others for help and being carried around was making Andrei very sad. He had been used to handle his wheelchair on his own. Now, in the absence of an adapted transport solution for Andrei and his heavy powered wheelchair, his stepfather was carrying him all the time. The social workers even considered taking him back to the center.

The new wheelchair donated by Motivation towards the end of 2024 enables Andrei to move around on his own again – whether he is in the courtyard, at school, in the house or in the classroom. This makes him feel better, keeps him active and increases his self-esteem. Since Andrei received the new wheelchair, he has been smiling more and his attitude is more positive. Even though the house is not fully accessible for a wheelchair user, Andrei`s family is very supportive. His mother, her partner and their other children - Andrei’s half-siblings - do their best to make things work.

As you can see, Andrei has been through considerable mobility difficulties for a child his age. Hopefully, his mobility as well as his spirit will improve with the help of his new wheelchair, and with the support of his family.

Each year, Motivation gives back hope to more than 1,000 persons with disabilities like Andrei, by donating wheelchairs and providing wheelchair skills training.

In 2024, we gave back hope in a life of fulfilment to ten wheelchair users, through donations received on GlobalGiving. Every wheelchair was essential for enabling increased personal independence, mobility and the ability to participate in the family and the community again.

Continue to donate to the Wheelchair Fund so that people with mobility needs like Andrei can regain their hope in a fulfilled life!

Motivation is here to support each wheelchair user on this road, one at a time. As new wheelchair users come to us for help, YOUR donation enables us to continue to help them. If you are able to make it a monthly gift, you will boost our ability to respond quickly to the ongoing need for appropriate wheelchair donations.

Make a monthly gift of hope and freedom of movement to children and adults with mobility disabilities like Andrei!

YOU help change lives for the better. Thank you!

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Oct 10, 2024
Your monthly gift of hope for Romanian wheelchair users

By Anca Beudean | Sustainability Director

Selvis learns independent wheelchair skills

Dear friend of Motivation Romania,

I am happy to bring you the good news of how your recurring donations touch the lives of children and adults with mobility disabilities in Romania.

”When I work with the wheelchair user trainers at Motivation, I keep thinking that what they do, I could do as well. Their example encourages me to keep trying.”

Selvis is 25 years old. He has been using a wheelchair for three years, following a work accident, after falling from a height. In the first months after the accident, he needed a lot of help, and his wife was the one who supported him. She helped him with everything he needed to do, but couldn’t anymore. Things like turning from side to side in bed, transferring out of bed, eating or taking care of personal hygiene were suddenly out of reach for him, on his own.

My colleagues from the Motivation team in Constanta gave him the support and encouragement he needed to learn to become active again. Selvis came to one of our active rehabilitation sessions, where he learned to handle the wheelchair better. At the camp, seeing that Selvis` wheelchair skills improved, my colleagues prescribed and donated an active style wheelchair, which was more appropriate for his improved wheelchair maneuvering abilities.

Selvis received his new wheelchair in June. He is independent now and can do almost everything by himself. He is happy that he no longer needs to ask his wife for so much help, and feels like his relationship is better because of this.

Selvis and his wife have a 3-year-old boy. His wife was pregnant when the accident happened, and the boy was born a few months later. Selvis is coming to terms with the loss he suffered during the accident, but he is also immensely grateful for the joy of his son`s birth and for having a supportive family besides him. When he is not attending rehabilitation, he goes out to the park with his son and his wife. He is happy that his new skills and his new wheelchair enable him to do so many things with his family.

Each year, Motivation gives back hope to more than 1,000 persons with disabilities like Selvis, by donating wheelchairs and providing wheelchair skills training.

This year, we gave back hope in a life of fulfilment to eight wheelchair users, through donations received on GlobalGiving, after accidents or illnesses had taken all hope away.

Continue to donate to the Wheelchair Fund so that people with mobility needs like Selvis can regain their hope in a fulfilled life!

Motivation is here to support each wheelchair user on this journey. As new wheelchair users come to us for help, YOUR donation enables us to reach out to each. If you are able to turn your donation into a monthly gift, you will boost our ability to respond quickly to the ongoing need for appropriate wheelchair donations.

Make a monthly gift of hope and freedom of movement to children and adults with mobility disabilities like Selvis!

YOU help change lives for the better.

Thank you!

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