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A grateful woman and her son, Shemario Penny Cooke (age 11), who, until this day, had never had a wheelchair.  It took the ROC Wheels team four hours to fit this chair.

The Montego Bay Rotary Club and ROC Wheels, a non-profit based in Bozeman, MT that works to provide wheelchairs to children in need in developing countries, teamed up to custom-fit 32 specialized wheelchairs to some very-deserving children at West Haven Children's home.  The fittings, which began on Memorial Day, continued throughout the week as the ROC team worked tirelessly on this wonderful Joint International Project.  At Cornwall Regional Hospital - the hospital that our Club partners with - a total of 47 wheelchairs will be delivered and fitted, and still others will be sent to other locations.  Our Club donated the $1,500 raised in 2012 and the $900 in 2013 from the Valentine's Day fundraisers to aid in shipping the wheelchairs to Jamaica.

Please click here to view the thank you letter received by the President of the Montego Bay Rotary Club, Bhagwan Chuganey, from West Haven Children's Home.