Mobilize Mankind

“Miscellaneous Income 3”

“Travel 8,478”

“Fundraising 162”

“Conferences, conventions, and meetings 422”

“Equipment rental and maintenance 685”

“Supplies 1,360”

“Telephone 4,084”

“Depreciation 2,489”

“Bank charges 1,304”

“Contracted services 168”

“Education 209”

“Advertising 981”

“Insurance 3,888”

“Repairs 25”

“Internet 1,054”

“Vehicle expenses 2,634”

“Medical/ Relief Program services 14,380”

“Volunteer expenses 630”

“VEHICLES TRAILERS Beginning of year 5,965, End of year 3,476”

“LOAN PAYABLE-GREG GAYLE EDWARDS Beginning of year 8,000, End of year 12,346”

“REIMBURSEMENTS PAYABLE Beginning of year 0, End of year 811”

“Program Highlights of Year 2017”

“MobiMex Mobility Center”

“The mobility center continued to establish itself in 2017 in both Los Cabos and the entire Baja California Sur state. Referrals come from all over the state.”

“Our Mexican coordinator, Erandy, and assembler, Luis, are maturing in the job and currently able to meet production schedules and perform child mobility evaluations with a minimum of supervision.”

“Weekly evaluations and distributions began to be the norm with several larger weeklong distributions throughout the year. Home visits increased as well. Over 150 special needs children with mobility challenges seen and served this year. We are now well over 2000 kids and youth in our Mobilize Mankind mobility program.”

“Production is steady and yielded an inventory of 50 new kid chairs and 50 refurbished wheelchairs ready for distribution at years end beyond what was handed out.”

“We had a local artist paint a beautiful mural with bright colors and Disney characters on the office walls both inside and out. The goal was to avoid a stark white clinical look and make the work area more child friendly. Everyone loved it”

“Two parking spaces in front of the center were designated handicap parking and painted with the international symbols for disabled parking.”

“Springbreak This year marks the tenth year in a row that Mobilize Mankinds Board of Director members have teamed up with volunteers to distribute wheelchairs and provide continuing education classes for the teachers and administrators at the local special education school. The team of eleven specialists physical, occupational therapists, special education teachers provided evaluations, training and assistance with custom fitting equipment and wheelchair distributions. The Mobilize Mankind Mobility Center hosted this annual clinic this year for the first time. The team also worked on the facility and modified the conventional bathroom into an accessible bathroom for all ages. In addition to the wheelchair work, approximately thirty-five participants including teachers, assistants, parents and students attended training courses provided by our team this week. The following annual topics were presented visual supports, receptive and expressive communication both verbal and non-verbal, choice making, eye gaze, sign language, picture exchange, voice output devices and the use of assistive technology, building independence, imitation/matching/touch point math, autism, social stories and sensory areas. The school programs become stronger each successive year, new ones are added, new tools are applied and the support from the parents increases, leading to an increase in students and improved attendance.”

“Ongoing Prosthetics and Orthotics Clinic In February and November, MM served 100 individuals for both prosthetics and orthotics in collaboration with the Balandra Rotary Club. This eight-year project has now custom made and fitted over 500 prosthetics and recycled innumerable orthotics all free to their recipients. Assuming a safe-to-say minimum value of 5,000 per prosthetic that is over 2,500,000 dollars for the prosthetics alone, not to mention the orthotics. Once again we had attending and supporting the PO clinic Dr. Robert Haining from Oakland Childrens Hospital, California, who assists with evaluations of medically fragile children and offers consultation services as needed.”

“Shriners Medical Outreach Clinic Our collaboration with Shriners Hospitals continues to grow with five more children referred to Shriners Hospitals in Tijuana, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. This brings the total to ten children who are receiving extensive services free through the Shriners collaboration. They have received surgery, rehabilitation services, burn services, medical attention evaluations.”

“Hurricane Relief Completed in 2017 was the last of the work on three family home repairs and the distribution of several major kitchen appliances from previously donated/earmarked funds.”