Building a Better Wheelchair

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Do you guys have that show 'Dragon's Den' in the states? I think getting on that show would be useful, especially with all the know-how the dragons have.

You have a great product that would sell well if marketed correctly ( I know about the not for profit thing but you have to cover costs and overheads etc plus leave something over for more investment), so setting up a basic website as mentioned would be a good start.

If you've ever heard of a company called 'Shelter Box', then their approach is highly successful; people donate money to them as they are a charity, and then they buy (in bulk) items of survival kit and shelter equipment that goes into a big box and gets shipped off to 3rd world countries or disaster areas (think earth quakes, floods, refugee camps etc). You could setup the chairs as a charity and then as people donate, you can buy all the parts needed to complete a single chair, and package them up as a kit and ship them out, to be assembled at their new home (clear pictoral instructions would be included along with glue and a tube of grease for the wheel bearings etc).

That approach would be good, or worth thinking about I reckon.