# New campaign to challenge poor donor support for overseas disability projects

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/11/29/new-campaign-challenge-poor-donor-support-overseas-disability-projects/
- Published: 2004-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**International development charity World Emergency Relief (WER) is launching its
new Wheels of Change campaign this week and hoping to challenge the low levels of
support amongst the UK public for disability projects in developing countries.**

The campaign will be launched on 3 December 2004, the UN International Day of Disabled
Persons, with the Paralympic bronze medal-winning GB wheelchair basketball team 
meeting up with the top team from Guatemala for a training session and game at the
Stoke Mandeville Stadium.

WER funds a number of disability projects in developing countries, including Transitions
Independent Living and Training Centre in Antigua, Guatemala where the visiting 
wheelchair basketball team is based.

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While many charities lament that their cause is unpopular with the public, WER can
actually point to evidence that supports their belief: they have undertaken test
mailings which have achieved 70% less in terms of results because they contained
inserts about a disability project.

The charity hopes that the new campaign will overcome this, particularly set against
the backdrop of success by the Paralympic GB team and the profile of the Disability
Discrimination Act.

Wheels of Change is being launched to highlight the ongoing need for better education,
access and equipment for young disabled people in developing countries.

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