Friends of Disabled Adults and Children Partners With Invacare to Provide Aid in Wake of Joplin Tornado

Posted on: Monday, 13 Jun 2011, 15:57 CDT

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga., Jun 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC) has partnered with Invacare Corporation (NYSE: IVC), providing evident assist shipments of apparatus and reserve to Joplin, Missouri. A large F5 hurricane ripped by a core of Joplin on May 22, 2011, withdrawal many of a city in ruins. FODAC, with a support of Invacare, was means to send a initial supply conveyance to Joplin within 24 hours of a disaster.

FODAC is doing logistics and coordinating a service efforts, mixing a Invacare donations with a possess register and that of other sponsors. Invacare is donating wheelchairs, mattresses, crutches and other equipment, including 324 oxygen cylinders that will be distributed by Cox Home Support Systems.

“The initial 48 hours after a disaster are a many critical,” pronounced Chris Brand, boss and CEO of FODAC. “Non-profit organizations like FODAC can precedence determined relations in internal communities like Joplin to fast coordinate service efforts. Partnering with sponsors like Invacare, we can have trucks with essential medical reserve and apparatus on a highway to a disaster area within 24 hours.”

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to those families influenced by a hurricane in Joplin, Missouri,” pronounced Brian Ellacott, clamp boss and ubiquitous manager of blurb operations for North America during Invacare. “In light of this terrible tragedy, and as a rescue efforts continue, Invacare is donating apparatus to assistance those impacted by this harmful storm.”

After a initial shipment, FODAC will continue to work with FEMA and Red Cross member in Joplin to supply additional shipments of apparatus and supplies. In mid-May, FODAC and Invacare responded to a harmful storms and floods that scorched several Southern states; both organizations also continue to boat reserve to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana.

About FODAC

FODAC helps children, adults and seniors with disabilities recover their mobility, autonomy and peculiarity of life. The non-profit classification provides some-more than $9 million annually in refurbished home medical apparatus (HME) and home modifications in Georgia and opposite a United States, all during small or no cost to a recipients. A colonize in re-use, FODAC keeps 185 tons of materials out of landfills any year by refurbishing and reissuing over 300 HME apparatus each month, and is famous nationally for best practices. Funding comes from grants, private foundations, companies and individuals.

The classification was started by volunteers who began refurbishing and giving divided wheelchairs to needy Atlantans and was strictly incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 1986. Since then, a classification has grown to embody a staff of 24 and an normal of 35 volunteers per week, and an annual bill of over $1 million. Chris Brand serves as Executive Director. To date, FODAC has supposing clients with over $60 million in medical apparatus including over 25,000 wheelchairs. The classification is upheld by grants and corporate and private donations. FODAC is headquartered during 4900 Lewis Road, Stone Mountain, Ga., 30083. For some-more information, revisit www.fodac.org or call 770.491.9014.

About Invacare

Invacare Corporation (NYSE: IVC), headquartered in Elyria, Ohio, is a tellurian personality in

the make and placement of innovative home and long-term caring medical products

that foster liberation and active lifestyles. The Company has 6,300 associates and

markets a products in 80 countries around a world. The Company was named to the

2011 Fortune 1000 list and to a 2010 IndustryWeek U.S. Manufacturing 500. For more

information about a Company and a products, revisit Invacare’s website at

www.invacare.com.

Press contacts: Lizbeth Dison
FODAC
ldison@orotek.com
678.372.8164

Kelly Mize
Invacare
kmize@invacare.com
216.526.7436

SOURCE Friends of Disabled Adults and Children

Source: PR Newswire

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