FORT MILL, S.C. (CN2 NEWS) 7-year-old John Jackson Blanks is living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and has trouble getting around.
The family recently received a new electric wheelchair — it weighs 300 pounds making transport difficult.
The non-profit All Things Possible Medical Fundraising, helps get families the medical vehicles they need and have been able to help 7 families since May of 2019.
Now, the non-profit is stepping in to help the Blanks’s in their time of need.
Lisa Sexton, Executive Director, at All Things Possible, “All Things Possible medical fundraising is the only nonprofit I think anywhere in the United States that gives away wheelchair vans to families in need and mainly because it’s hard.”
“As parents it means a lot. It gives me an ease of mind for not only him but my wife. She does work at the same school he attends, and it is hard for her, In the mornings getting in and out. With the wheelchair she’ll be able to strap in and go and safety wise it’s a big step up safety wise,” says, Danny Blanks.
You can help support families like the Blanks’s by donating or Volunteering with All Things Possible Medical Fundraising.
The organization’s next fundraising event, The Exhault Showcase, is coming up you can find out more at www.AllThingsPossible.org.
