THE PET REPORT, FLORIDA

(P.E.T.=Personal Energy Transportation)

Vol.7>THE GIFT OF MOBILITY, THE GIFT OF HOPE< Fall 2004

  The wheekhair that goes where wheelchairs can't go www.petflorida.org————— email >llhills@bellsouth.net<


THE HAPPY STORY OF YOLANDA AND HER PET


Yolanda Acosta Bonilla lives in Urraco Pueblo, Yoro, Honduras. She is 24 years old. She had polio when she was 4 years of age leaving her unable to walk and has had to crawl or be carried every since. Now, for the first time in her life, she is able to get around in her community by herself. She hopes to develop a business selling bread for her family

 

THIS VIETNAM PICTURE SAYS IT ALL

 

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RODOLFO GIRON BONILLA

Dear members of the PET Project,

Mr. Bonilla is 54 years old and sends his thanks for the great gift you have given him through Pro-Papa Mission. Rodolfo lives in El Progreso, Honduras and works each day in front of the supermarket taking care of bicycles and packages

while people shop. He also sells shopping bags. Rodolfo fell off a tractor in 1969 at 19 years old. It cut off both his legs. He asked me to tell you "thanks a million" for sending him this great gift. He lives one mile from where he works.

God bless all of you. Thanks for all you are doing for those who suffer so much because of polio or accidents. Sister Laurinda Mayer, SFCC   PRO-PAPA MISSION

DON AND CAROL MUTH FROM EAST JEWETT, NY RECENTLY TOOK US UP FOR THREE DAYS ON OUR OFFER OF FREE ROOM AND BOARD WHILE TRAINING IN OUR PET CENTER IN HOW TO START A PET PLACE.

FROM DELBERT GROVES, MISSIONARY IN CHARGE OF PET ZAMBIA

 

Larry Hills, director of PET Florida-Penney Farms, and wife Laura live in Penney Retirement Community just across the street from the PET Place. Above we see Don and Carol sharing a meal in the retirement center dining room with Laura on the left. Below is Carol Muth learning how to staple and tape a box in preparation for packing a PET.

 We're continually amazed at all the ways PETs bring purpose and hope into peoples lives. Evans Bwalya is an older man living in the bush in Zambia. When he was a baby his family was traveling on top of a load of supplies on a 10 ton truck with 26 other people. The driver lost control and the truck overturned into a deep gorge. Everyone was killed on the truck but at the last second Evans mother threw him off onto the rutted road. He fell in such a way that both his legs were crushed from the knees down and he lost them. Ever since Evans has lived with his aunt and family who have cared for and carried him around. After getting his PET he sends his thanks to every one of you who have a part in keeping the PET ministry alive in Zambia. "I can now visit my friends, go to church, and even go to the fields and plant my own garden. Keep showing Christ's love—DONfT STOP!!'1

The Muth's training included, among other things, incorporating in your home state and obtaining non-profit tax free status, obtaining 501(c)3 registration, becoming an affiliate of PET International, fund raising techniques, financial accountability, address lists, newsletters, banking, responding to gifts, PET construction methods, and cultivating volunteer parts makers. Several basic construction templates were prepared for them before they arrived which they used in training and took home with them to start their center with. They also left with video, pictures and literature for promotion, and much more.

 

Yes! I want to bring mobility to a person. whose legs do not function! Please find my check enclosed.$                        for PET's at $250.00 each toward the purchase of a PET. 

Name
Address
City State
Organization
Larry Hills, Director
P.O. Box  919
Penney Farms, Fl 32079

 (904)284-5495
E-mail llhills@bellsouth.net