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Grant helps with wheelchair ramps
Updated: Thursday, 12 Jul 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 12 Jul 2012, 5:54 PM EDT
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - A national grant helps a local group help others.
The WILL Center recently received a $10,000 grant from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.
They money will be used to help individuals and their families, who are coping with a disability live a little easier.
In particular, the WILL Center partnered with the group Servants at Work to help build wheelchair ramps for people who need them.
One mom we spoke with has a child with muscular dystrophy, And says the ramp was a blessing.
"Just to have that for him is just such a big difference because we do have steps and getting him up and down the steps is just so difficult because he can't hardly do steps now, “ Stacey Maley, who had a ramp installed told News 10.
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