Thank you for your interest in the Center for Disability Rights (CDR) Annual Wheel-A-Thon to benefit young people with disabilities.
Sign in for the 2012 Wheel-A-Thon is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 9, 2012, at the Savin Rock Conference Center in West Haven, Connecticut.
Team Karshutay wins first place in the 2011 CDR Wheel-A-Thon
Last year, Wheel-A-Thon participants and sponsors raised more than $13,400 for CDR’s scholarships and youth transition program. Individuals who were not part of a team but who raised at least $25 for young people with disabilities participated on the Friends of CDR team.
One participant raised $540 just by himself from generous donors around town. Robert J. Alling received special recognition at a CDR Membership Meeting recently. Read about it here.
The top fundrasing teams were 1. Team Karshutay; 2. West Haven Community House; and 3. Four Wheel Loggers I.
Team Dove from Unilever shows their 2011 CDR Wheel-A-Thon team spirit
For more photos from the 2011 Wheel-A-Thon, visit CDR’s Flickr page.
Some 2011 Wheel-A-Thon participant also participated in the fun Disability Challenge Course, a new awareness-raising experience designed to show the obstacles people in wheelchairs face every day.
You can download a pdf of the 2012 Wheel-A-Thon brochure here.
A participant gets ready to beging the 2011 CDR Wheel-A-Thon Disability Challenge Course
The Center for Disability Rights Wheel-A-Thon to benefit young people with disabilities is a fundraising and community awareness campaign to benefit the youth programs and activities of the CDR and its partners. Money raised in 2011 will fund the following:
- 3 college scholarships for students with disabilities;
- Advocacy with students to improve their education;
- Facilitation Services for youth groups; and
- CDR youth transition services.
Members of the West Haven Community House 2011 CDR Wheel-A-Thon team who took second place.
A Great Big Thank You to All of Our Corporate Sponsors!
- Unilever
- Agway
- First Church of Christ Congregational Clinton, CT
- NSCIA-CT
- Amadeus Center for Health and Healing
- Anthony Giordano — Engineer
- ATG Rehab
- Gateway Christian Fellowship
- New Britain Medical
- Obie Harrington – Howes
- People’s United Bank
- Spectrum Associates
- Advanced Wheels — CT
- West Haven Medical
2011 Wheel-A-Thon participants begin the course along the West Haven shoreline at Savin Rock Conference Center.
Click on an individual thumbnail below to view a slideshow of some of the photos from the 2011 Wheel-A-Thon, or click on 6th Annual CDR Wheel-A-Thon to benefit youth with Disabilities, Sept. 25, 2011 to view all the photos on flickr.com. Or what a slideshow of all the photos on Flickr here.
Be sure to watch our broadcast on WTNH’s Good Morning CT about the 6th Annual CDR Wheel-A-Thon to benefit youth with disabilities that took place Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Visit our news page to watch the video. Or watch it on CDR’s Facebook page here, or the Wheel-A-Thon’s Facebook page here.
