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Woman With Cerebral Palsy Uses Creativity and Insight
to Turn 'Stigma' Into 'Style'
Every Kid Mobility is helping disabled kids by providing decorative crutches that say "style" and not "stigma."
One of the company's customers, Anna, the 3-year-old daughter of Annie Beth Donahue of the Charlotte, N.C., area, "wouldn't even use crutches, until she discovered she could have them in pink!" the mother says. "That's 'her' color," Annie Beth Donahue says. "She is very motivated by fashion." Before Every Kid Mobility's set came along, Anna was holding onto furniture, to people's hands and using a walker. The crutches allow her to get closer to people and to things than she could before."
The designs most-often requested by Every Kid Mobility's customers include red daisies, flying pigs, flags, pink and green flowers, guitars and dragons. EKM is currently in talks with Disney and other companies for licenses to use their designs, as well.
Most of EKM's crutches are in the $175 to $200 range, with bariatric crutches, for people with obesity, priced at $350.
Every Kid Mobility works with families to create funding plans to raise money to help them afford her adaptive bicycles, which can cost between $1,100 for a cycle to more than $5,000 for a tandem. Non-profit groups and friends and families of EKM's customers have raised more than $350,000 to date.
"I think that every kid should grow up being able to ride a bicycle," she says. "So many wonderful people keep helping us make that happen."
By Sept. 1 EKM will expand its product line to include "picture canes" for adults decorated with photos of the customer's grandchildren or family, which will retail for around $80 in stores and online at www.brokenbeauties.com. EKM is pursuing a specialty line so that companies can commission their own artwork.
