Purchase a wheelchair van

Hello my name is Sarah Jones, Sr. We are trying to raise money to purchase a wheelchair van or at least get a very good down payment so that the payments on the van will be low each month. That way payments can be affordable each month for myself.

I am a single mother of four children two are my biological, I also have custody of my great niece and nephew.

My daughter who's name is Sarah Rose Jr she is 13 years old. She was born with limb abnormalities which she has no limbs on her right side of her body and partial on her left side, she has just above her elbow, on her left arm and just below the knee on her leg, so she has a short leg with a foot attached.

Little Sarah has two ways of getting around one which is for short distances is walking with her prosthetic leg and that's more for exercise and getting around the house if need be. Her main way of traveling is with her power chair, that gives her the most Independence.

With her power chair she is able to move about and get around the house and get to things without having to ask someone constantly to take her there, push her there, get this, or get that.

For years now we have been battling trying to get this wheelchair van jumping hurdles, swinging through hoops, including getting lost in covid shuffle!!

It has just been non-stop I'm at a loss.

She has grown so much over the years, I can barely lift her from her chair to the van seat, that we have now!

My 11 year old son has taken over and been lifting his 100 lbs sister, when we go places, and we have to bring her manual push Chair when we take her for her appointments and places out in the community. I don't want him to hurt his self or her. My aunt already fell while lift her from the car to the push chair, it's very scary each time.

I don't know what else to do, to help our situation!

We have the Waiver but it will only cover 6,000 and that has to go towards the ramp in the van that I purchase. Which is all good except vans Start at 19,000 and up and these are used wheelchair vans. There are a lot of stipulations to be able to use the $6,000 from the waiver that is kind of making it hard to purchase the van I've saved what I can from my tax return to put with the money from the waiver to purchase the van but now the van that we were looking at has sold. It just seems like every time we get close to getting a van we are pushed back.

My daughter is 13 and wants to be able to go places with her friends and hang out get dropped off at the movie theater and watch movies and just have a social life, be able to go to the park and roll around.

Walk with her friends and just do the normal things that 13 year olds girls do.

But because she has to be pushed everywhere she's stuck in the house, isolated from her friends and events.

The kids they don't want to come over and sit in the house, they want to be out enjoying the weather and doing things that 13-year-olds do.

My Sarah girl is a very positive...... one of the most positive people you'll ever meet despite her circumstances, she is bubbly, smiley,in a great mood, great in school all her teachers love her.

She deserves to be able to get out and get around and enjoy life and share her positivity and she inspires so many people and I just feel like we've been trapped for so long GoFundMe was my last resort and so here we are.

So if you made it this far into our story, if you could find it in your heart to share and donate we would greatly appreciate it!! We've been praying about this van for a very long time, every time it got close to getting it....... I even went as far as purchasing of brand new van and then we were waiting for the waiver money to come through and years of waiting and getting lost in the covid paperwork shuffle that everybody went through.

We have just been spun around and spun around! So we would be greatly grateful to be able to get this van so that she can enjoy her summer and getting out of the house can be easier for us all.

Thank you in advance The Jones family.