March 25th is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day. However, awareness for this disability is also celebrated throughout the month. As a show of support, we’d like to share some facts about cerebral palsy, and we encourage you to share this […]
Technology has come a long way in helping people with mobility issues perform everyday tasks with greater ease. Recently, a mother came up with a novel idea for a device to help her wheelchair-bound son, born with cerebral palsy, to […]
Photojournalist Dan Habib’s work has taken him well beyond his New Hampshire home to foreign locales like China and shedding light on subjects like teen sexuality. But after his son, Samuel, was born in 1998, Habib’s work turned much closer […]
This holiday season, we want to wish you our best! As a wheelchair accessible van provider, we are proud to serve the wheelchair community in any way we can. We enjoy putting the spotlight on organizations involved in activities and […]
Van Products supports groups that work to promote awareness and raise funding for diseases like cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis. We also coordinate with local athletic teams like the Durham Bulls and the Carolina Hurricanes to provide tickets […]
Paraplegic Pilot Sees Dream Soar – “You can achieve your dreams,” says paraplegic pilot of hot air balloons. After a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Michael Glen was turned down for his pilot’s license for his […]
An innovative organization that continually inspires us at Van Products is the United Cerebral Palsy “Life Without Limits” national initiative. The campaign is lead by a group that ranges from company sponsors to congressmen, all of which aim to re-think […]
In North Carolina there are many groups, organizations, foundations and events that exist to support the wheelchair community, and at Van Products, we are both excited and humbled to be a part of that community. People throughout North Carolina need […]
It is a challenge to do justice to this family’s story with words, but the Father-Son duo called Team Hoyt is too inspirational to be left out. Just before he was born, a complication leading to extended oxygen deprivation caused […]
