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Great News from Thailand:
Luc's mobility is improving!
A Letter from our Thailand Director,
Luc, who was in the Bangkok hospital with stroke-like symptoms during
Patrick's spring 2009 visit.
He was taken to his home country, Belgium, to
rehabilitate and is now back in Thailand. Luc is still
working on regaining full use of his arm— very important
for a paraplegic!
Please keep him,
his wife Marjike, and the Thailand wheelchair program
in your prayers. |
November 2009
Here everything is going now much and much better. My health situation is
going better and better... But still it is not yet as before... but I do
surely not complain... I realize very well that He has still some plans with
me... I am so thankful to Him that the Lord still alows me to be here and
to be able to help people with disability.
About the work, it is really very busy ... the last three months we have
been doing distributions (fittings) almost every day at our warehouse here
at RICD. I would like to thank you again for the very very nice wheelchairs
and other equipment we again received from Wheels of Hope this year. Again
so many people could benefit from these ! Thank so much !
I am also very proud to announce that we now also do complete maintenance
and repairs of the equipment. We now even see
that people who did not receive their wheelchair from our project still
ask us to repair. We of course do also these repairs. For this we also
try to make our workshop more efficient with some good working tools.
Now we can also say that we have some local support groups all over Thailand
working with us e.g. in the region of Nakhon Si Thamarat (deep south), Nan
province, Mae Hong Son province, Prachuab Khiri Khan province. These
groups are doing the maintenance of the wheelchairs and other equipment but
also doing the small repairs. This sytem is very helpful for the local people.
For December 2009 we also scheduled to have two big distributions... one
at Ratchaburi (150 km south of Bangkok) and one at RICD in Chiang Mai. This
year we also have more and more CBR home visits. In 2008 we still had 31
CBR visits ... This year from January to November, we had already 61 CBR
home visits. This is quite a necessity to do as many people with disability
are not able to come by physical limitations to a distribution venue somewhere
in Thailand or to RICD in Chiang Mai.
So this is it a little bit for the moment. Again, Patrick, thanks so much
for your beautiful support ! This means so much to sooo many people in Thailand
!
May 2009
First of all I would like to thank you for the very nice article
I just received from you about "Thailand update ongoing outreach - from
poorest to those in high places". I already made a print out and
I will give this article this morning to Dr. Samai.
I also would like
to thank you so much for the container shipment we received. Already
lots of people with disability have
received equipment from this container. We are now in the process of doing
a distribution
in Ratchaburi, about 1,000 km south of Chiang Mai. There will be
about 50 wheelchairs going to that distribution. I will keep you
informed on this.
Now about myself... I would like apologize that I could
not join you in March during your visit here in Chiang Mai (editor's
note: he was only in the hospital!) but ... I am already
back in Chiang Mai... I still have to be very careful but
I
am
already working fulltime in the wheelchair project again. I am so
happy that He gives me the chance to be able to help people again!!!!
I was
already working in a small distribution in Mae Hong Son... My arm
is getting better every day... but I still have some limitations.
I do not complain
at all about this as I am so thankfull to Him. After all these problems
I surely realize that He still has plans with me... that is also
why I did not worry as I put my faith completely in His hands and
he will decide
what will happen with me and where he wants me to go...
Patrick, I
would like to thank you again for all your help, support and hard
work to help our Thai disabled friends!
Blessings,
Luc Masschelein
Director Wheels of Hope -Thailand
Project Manager - RICD Wheelchair Project, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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