Diabetes is the number one killer in Belize but what you may not know is that there is a growing number of Belizeans who have been left disabled because of the chronic illness. Many are handicapped and simply are unable to live a normal life without the aid of a wheel chair. And while there is still much infrastructure work that needs to be done to give access to the disabled, one organization is making sure that those who need a wheel chair can get one. A benefit concert is scheduled for Monday night to aid Rotary’s Wheel Chair distribution project. Country singer Kelly Mcguire will be entertaining for four hours inside the jungle pavilion at Old Belize. Organizer Francis Woods told us more.

Francis Woods, Organizer
“It is a benefit to help offset the cost of distributing over 210 wheelchairs that a group of Californians, mostly Rotarians have brought to Belize through the Wheelchair Foundation.

Unfortunately diabetes is the main cause of the need for wheelchairs in Belize, it is a severe problem. Myself through Rotary, this trip will, after we have delivered all of the 210, will make over 1,000 wheelchairs that we have delivered to Belizean countrywide that really really needed wheelchairs.

Kelly Mcguire has made Belize his home and he sang a couple songs about Belize and I invite the public to go online and Youtube him and check out his songs, really good music and he’ll certainly have the crowd enjoying that night.”

The two hundred and ten wheel chairs will be distributed during an official ceremony at ten on Monday morning. The Kelly Mcguire benefit begins at seven inside the jungle pavilion at old Belize on the Western Highway. Tickets are forty dollars each. There will also be food and drinks all night. If you are interested in attending you can call Francis Woods at 610–1681 for your tickets.