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Whizz-Kidz Fast Forward Campagin
Whizz-Kidz is a charity organisation aiming to ensure that every child has the opportunity to be something special...a kid. But there are an estimated 70,000 disabled children in the UK who are waiting for the right wheelchair, a wheelchair that will mean they can get up to all the things that kids like to do.
This wait often takes months, even years. In the meantime, children are missing out on their childhood as they’re unable to fully participate in family and school life, and keep up with their friends. And that’s where Whizz-Kidz comes in. We provide kids with powered and lightweight manual wheelchairs, specialist trikes, and other vital mobility equipment. And in every community kids are having fun at our amazing wheelchair skills courses, meeting and making friends at our Ambassador clubs, and gaining the life skills they need for when they grow up.
Whizz-Kidz is currently working on a campaign called Fast Forward. We’re calling on the government to Fast Forward reform of NHS wheelchair provision for disabled children and young people. This will ensure that all disabled children in the UK can access the right mobility equipment and ongoing support that they need without undue delay.
The government has made a commitment to reform NHS wheelchair services on many occasions. We would like to ask the government to Fast Forward improvements to NHS wheelchair provision for disabled children.
We have started an online petition for the Fast Forward campaign and we want to reach 70,000 signatures to represent the 70,000 disabled children in the UK waiting for a wheelchair.
Below is the link to sign the e–petition. You can help us achieve our goal by signing the petition yourself, and asking your friends to sign it and pass it along to their friends. Another way to help would be posting the short link on your Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter or any other social networking sites. All the help you are willing to give is greatly appreciated by the staff here at Whizz-Kidz along with the children who are still waiting for their childhood to begin.
bit.ly/fastFWD
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