By BOB CAMPBELL
Odessa American 

West Texan honored for international wheelchair donations

 

February 27, 2019



ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Troy Allan Chesnut found true happiness seven years ago on a dirt road leading into Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana.

The Odessa American reports Chesnut and an English Rotarian, Milton Frary, were on their way to give wheelchairs to 150 disabled Ghanaians when they drove onto an astonishing and very poignant sight.

"We saw people crawling or scooting on their backs, going to the distribution point at 2 p.m.," he said. "Some had been going since 7 a.m. So we told the driver, 'Stop the car, let us out and pick up as many of these people as you can get. Keep coming back, g...



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