I saw a woman who needed a wheelchair drag herself across a street. Now I’ve given away 1 million wheelchairs

I saw a woman who needed a wheelchair drag herself across a street. Now I’ve given away 1 million wheelchairs, but 75 million others need a wheelchair.

Many years later, as I walked through our living room past the eyesore of an old antique wheelchair I had collected a few years prior, I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks. My thoughts snapped back to Morocco, to that woman in the marketplace with her bloodied hands and blistered feet. How many people are there just like her in the world? I wondered. How many people could be lifted up off the ground if they only had a wheelchair?   Dr. Don Schoendorfer is a biomedical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and humanitarian who lives in Santa Ana, California. Armed with an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and a PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, Don spent nearly 25 years in the medical device industry, designing cutting-edge innovations resulting in more than 60 patents to his name.  

That’s when I saw her.