Letters from Brother Trevor Robinson

  1. Summer 2005 Update
  2. Christmas 2005


Summer 2005 Update
from Brother Trevor Robinson in Ghana

P.O.Box TL458
Tamale
Northern Region
Ghana

19th May 2005

Many thanks for the Easter gift of £450. I had the credit note yesterday. I will use the money to help pay for more bicycle parts expected from Holland.

Two weeks ago we completed another 40 wheelchair tricycles and we are still trying to get them all delivered. It always takes time for them to be collected, some have to go far away and there are transport costs to be considered. From this batch of 40, number 600 was collected and sent to Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region. By coincidence it was almost one year to the day since number 500 was collected.
Yesterday we sent one to Paga on the northern border of Ghana. The tricycle went to a young lady who was thrown to the ground by the handle of a bore hole pump, she damaged her back and is no longer able to walk.

We made another for a young girl who is so paralysed that she will not be able to operate a tricycle, so we were asked to make one that can be pulled. So we adapted a tricycle with a handle on the front like a trolly instead of hand pedals and chain. It should be fine as there are always plenty of people willing to pull her along, the kids think it is great fun. At the moment they are using a hospital wheelchair which is very difficult to push on loose ground, sand for instance.
Note: Photos supplied by Brother Trevor

Since finishing the tricycles we have been busy going through our job list which is mostly doing furniture for church projects. We even made two sets of doors for two outstation chapels in the Yendi diocese, and at the moment are making 100 small classroom tables for a conference hall at the Pastoral Centre.

We have been enjoying a few rains recently and everywhere is looking nice and green again with the farmers cultivating their fields. Those who can afford it can hire a tractor to plough the land, otherwise it is done by hand with a hoe. This as you can imagine is back breaking work.

Many thanks again to the Pelicans for your continued suffort and may God bless you all.

Trevor Robinson (Brother Trevor)


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Christmas Letter 2005
from Brother Trevor Robinson in Ghana


My Christmas card this year is a photograph of the Wheelchair Project workers who make our wheelchair tricycles. The picture was taken in the workshop yard when the 700th tricycle was completed in August this year.

A few weeks ago an elderly widow turned up at the workshop supporting herself on a long stick. She had heard about our wheelchair tricycles and came to see if she could get one for herself. She was accompanied by her young daughter the only survivor of five or six children and it had taken them two days to get here, breaking the journey half way at Gurugu where Dr. David has his clinic for the poor.

We supplied her with a tricycle and gave her some money to be able to get back by market lorry, she had come on foot with the help of her long stick. On the way to the lorry park, the workshop worker who was escorting her in her new tricycle met a taxi driver friend of his who offered to take them and the tricycle to the village		 The driver took half the money we had given her for his petrol and gave the other half back to the widow and drove them home together with the tricycle.

Thanks to the continued support of benefactors we are able to help people like the elderly widow from Kumbungu., so much so that it has become the main function of the workshop, and there are many people like her who now have a better quality of life.

At this time of Christmas and on behalf of the 725 wheelchair users -who now have mobility and can move around with dignity, I would like to say a big thank you for your continued support and wish you a joyful and peaceful Christmas.


May God bless you all,

Bro. Trevor Robinson

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