Articles from Joni and Friends

Wheels for the World® meets the critical needs of people with disabilities.

A longtime disability advocate, Joni helped draft and pass the ADA

Thornton, Senior Pastor of Calvary Community Church, has personal experience with disability.

An acclaimed author and speaker, Joni helped draft the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Agoura Hills, CA, Sept. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Over the past seventeen years, inmates at the South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, Tennessee, have restored over 25,000 donated wheelchairs through a prison work program. The used wheelchairs they fix are sent to high-need areas around the world through the Joni and Friends Wheels for the World™ program, which distributes mobility devices and Bibles to the world’s most vulnerable citizens.

For 30 years, Joni and Friends has distributed restored wheelchairs in low-resource countries

Serbia will be the 10th international Joni’s House disability program operated by Joni and Friends

Nonprofit has distributed 220,000 wheelchairs to low-resource countries around the world

Agoura Hills, CA, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In recognition for its work in eliminating physical, social and emotional barriers for people living with disability, Joni and Friends, an international disability ministry that provides practical care to people living with special needs around the globe, received a national honor from the government of El Salvador. El Salvador's National Council for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities (CONAIPD) bestowed the award on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities to recognize Joni and Friends as a strategic partner in promoting the respect of human rights and the inclusion of persons with disabilities.