Description: Helpin Hand for Veterans is a tool to give wheelchair bound individuals an extra hand, and extra freedom.
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Helping Hand for Veterans – Gives an extra hand to veteran wheelchair users and others. Designed and Developed by Girl Scout Ariella Hirsch for a Girl Scout Gold Award Project The helping Hand is Patent Pending. The Helping Hand is a DIY articulating arm that easily attaches to the handles of a wheelchair and frees up both hands for veterans and other wheelchair users to operate their wheelchairs while having hands-free support to carry and yet have easy access to lightweight packages such as groceries and
Designed to be easy to be built by readily available materials, the Helping Hand is inexpensive to build and requires materials that can be purchased at most local hardware stores. You can download the list of materials and instructions for building the Helping Hand on this website by clicking the Download button.
Who had inspiration the Helping Hand? Ariella Hirsch, a Girl Scout, who in 2017 was standing in front of a grocery store selling Girl Scout Cookies. Ariella says her inspiration occurred when “ I observed a gentleman in a wheelchair exiting the store hurriedly headed to his car. What caught my attention was the gallon of milk (weighing 8 pounds) he was carrying. It was in a plastic bag, suspended in HIS MOUTH because he had no other way to carry it. I could only imagine how painful, difficult, and pot