Salih Tatlıcı Foundation has donated functional battery-powered chairs to physically disabled children through BEDD (Solidarity Association for the Physically Disabled), which called for urgent help for the wheelchairs to remove the obstacles in front of the disabled children’s participation in social life.

We Stand By All Our Disabled Children Who Hold On To Life With The Joy Of Living

Regarding the donation, Uğur Tatlıcı, Executive Board Member of our Foundation, said: “As part of the cooperation developed with the Solidarity Association for the Physically Disabled, we have donated battery-powered chairs to meet the wheelchair needs of our orthopedically disabled children, in addition to the support we have previously provided as a Foundation to the charitable activities of the very same association. We will always continue to support all efforts to make the lives of our disabled children easier.“

The Solidarity Association for the Physically Disabled (BEDD) with a History of Approximately 30 Years

BEDD was founded on 20 July 1993 as a charity association in order to provide social solidarity by contributing to the education and health needs of all orthopedically disabled citizens of the Republic of Turkey. It aims to provide the necessary support for disabled citizens within its body regardless of religion, language, race, region and gender.

It has become a pioneering association in Turkey in breaking down barriers with the activities it carries out. As one of the top twenty most well-known and trusted non-governmental organisations of Turkey, it aims to serve more disabled citizens. It focuses on providing treatment, assistance and education opportunities to physically disabled children and young people, and pioneers their active participation in social life with awareness-raising of their families and society in general.

The number of disabled citizens living in Turkey is approximately over 13 million. BEDD delivered wheelchairs suitable for their needs to approximately 45,185 disabled people since 1993 when it was founded to enable disabled individuals to participate in life. Wheelchair choices should be made individually. Each chair may not be suitable for every needy person. In order for these chairs to facilitate the life of the disabled, their sizes, designs, and features must be completely personalized. Therefore, BEDD carries out comprehensive studies about the people in need of wheelchair distributions and performs studies to provide the vehicle suitable for the structure of the individual disability. In this way, supporters help in peace, knowing that their individual or institutional wheelchair donations are delivered to the right people and in the most useful way.

These wheelchairs are delivered to disabled people in need at distribution ceremonies organized in 81 provinces across the country in cooperation with Governorships, District Governorships, or Municipalities.