WORLD WHEELCHAIR
EXPRESS FOUNDATION
OUR STAFF
Steve Ellefson -President
Former Paralympian
Wheelchair Sports Coach
Toufic Allouche -Director of Wheelchair Basketball Operations
IWBF Board Member
Suzanna Tangen -Program Coordinator
Specialist in Adapted Physical Activity
Allan Chartrand -Wheelchair Rugby Coach
ABOUT US
World Wheelchair Express Foundation supports athletes with a disability in Southeast Asia.
We are a Canadian foundation providing people with disabilities with the opportunity to participate in organised local, national and international sport. We provide wheelchair sports equipment, information, coaching and assist in development of infrastructure to create effective sustainable sports programs.
We aim to increase life quality among persons with disabilities through physical activity and disability awareness in their community.
We are located in Calgary, Alberta, and have recently established another office in Norway. For further information contact:
Suzanna Tangen: info.parasports@gmail.com
Follow us on facebook to get current updates from us when we travel around and hold our sports clinics: facebook.com/wcexpress!
How it all started:
”In the late 90’s, I attended a wheelchair race in Oita,Japan, the largest wheelchair race in the world. This race attracts many of the best in the sport, most with state of the art equipment.
I met a small group of athletes from the Philippines, who despite their home-maderacing chairs performed well in this elite field.
I was impressed by the tenacity and determination
of this group and recognized the limitations imposed by their race-chairs.
At the end of the race, I donated my race-chair to the group, over the course of the next few years sent several more race chairs and travelled to the Philippines to support their para sport programs. It was during these visits that the dream became reality and WWEF was born."
-Steve Ellefson