중3 능률 양현권 영어 4과 본문 Meet an Engineer with a Heart of Gold

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Meet an Engineer with a Heart of Gold

 

Leading Free Wheelchair Mission, Dr. Don Schoendorfer has given away wheelchairs to those in need around the world. 

 

We met him last month, and he told us about his life.

 

Q: At the peak of your career, you started to look for ways to help others. 

 

Why did you decide to focus on wheelchairs?

 

When I visited Morocco in 1979, I was shocked to see a woman who was crawling across a road. 

 

She had lost the use of her legs in an accident. 

 

Nobody was paying any attention to her. 

 

This scene often came back to me, and one day the idea of giving away wheelchairs came to mind. 

 

I started to look seriously into people who need wheelchairs, and I came to learn the harsh reality. 

 

About 100 million people in the world need a wheelchair, but they can’t afford one because wheelchairs are very expensive.

 

Q: How did you solve the problem?

 

I wanted to design a wheelchair that would be light and strong. 

 

But more importantly, it had to be cheap and be made from easily accessible parts. 

 

Instead of wheels made for wheelchairs, I settled on bicycle wheels. 

 

For the seat, I chose a plastic lawn chair. 

 

It was all held together by a simple steel frame I designed myself. 

 

My friends thought I had gone off the deep end. 

 

My wife, who was supportive at first, soon got tired of my messing up our garage. 

 

But I kept going and finally made a better wheelchair. 

 

It could be built and delivered anywhere in the world for less than $80.

 

Q: Do you have any unforgettable stories about your wheelchair?

 

Sure. 

 

I built the first one hundred wheelchairs by hand. 

 

One of them was given to a 16-year-old girl in India. 

 

She had lived her whole life in a small room. 

 

When she got her wheelchair, she went out by herself. 

 

Finding that she could get from one place to another under her own power, she burst into tears.

 

Q: What has Free Wheelchair Mission done so far?

 

Working with other like-minded groups, we have distributed wheelchairs in over 90 countries for almost 20 years. 

 

At last in 2017, the one-millionth wheelchair was delivered. 

 

Each one represents a life changed. 

 

Someone can now go to school or to work.

 

Q: Please tell our readers a little about your future plans.

 

We’re going to deliver our next million wheelchairs by 2025. 

 

It’s going to take half the time it took to give out the first million. 

 

We’ll never slow down.

 

2001 

 

FWM started to give away wheelchairs.

 

2017 

 

FWM delivered its one-millionth wheelchair.

 

2025 

 

FWM is going to deliver its two-millionth wheelchair.

 

* FWM means Free Wheelchair Mission.

 

Dr. Don Schoendorfer

 

Dr. Don Schoendorfer is a biomedical engineer who lives in Santa Ana, California. 

 

He has achieved a great deal in the field of biomedical technology. 

 

In 2001, he founded Free Wheelchair Mission, a non-profit organization, and started to give away wheelchairs to people in need. 

 

He has received several awards for the work that Free Wheelchair Mission has done around the world.

 

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