ABOUT US
Global Mobility USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit humanitarian organization committed to provide increased self-sufficiency and mobility to persons with disabilities throughout the world without regards to political affiliation, religious belief or ethnic identity,
What sets Global Mobility apart is our focus on providing appropriate wheelchairs that are well-designed and custom-fitted for each recipient’s individual needs.
We accomplish this through our in-country seating and training clinics, a wheelchair service led by volunteer ATP-SMS, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and trained seating mobility technicians, whose help ensures compliance with internationally recognized CRPD standards. Another unique aspect of our seating clinics wheelchair service is training of the recipient’s support group in the proper use, care, and maintenance of their wheelchair.
The wheelchairs we provide are of the highest quality.
We manufacture at a low cost incorporating state-of-the-art engineering, which provides sturdy and reliable wheelchair suitable for the oftentimes-challenging terrain in low income countries. We provide a complete variety (family of wheelchairs) including but not limited to standard wheelchairs, complex rehab wheelchairs, active wheelchairs, sports wheelchairs along with recliner wheelchairs for children, teens and adults.
Recognizing there are many within our own country who lack the means to secure free wheelchairs and other ambulatory equipment, we work through local strategic partners to address that domestic need.
These partnerships include the Shriners Hospital for Children, the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, convalescent homes, churches and local missions.
Our global partners include Refugio de Esperanza/ Hope Haven International (Guatemala), the Da Nang Rehabilitation Hospital (Vietnam), Eldoret National Hospital (Kenya), PNG Assembly of Disabled Persons (PNG ADP) (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands), and Ruedas para Humanidad (Mexico), as well as Operation USA, and Project Handclasp, a humanitarian program of the U. S. Navy.
HISTORY
Founded by David Richard in 2012, the primary focus of Global Mobility is to provide wheelchairs to persons with disabilities around the world, primarily in, but not limited to, low income countries. Our outreach extends to those in need domestically as well.
In 1996 David founded Wheels for Humanity. Under his leadership that organization distributed and individually seated over 65,000 people with wheelchairs and other ambulatory aid in over 70 countries.