Free Wheelchairs

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Abby Sewell, A moving image got this wheelchair maker rolling;
On a trip to Morocco, engineer Don Schoendorfer saw a beggar dragging
herself across a road. Years later, he founded the Free Wheelchair Mission,
which gives away chairs in developing nations.
Los Angles Times, July 10, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0710-beliefs-wheelchair-20100710,0,6431681.story
("The manufacturing center long ago moved from Schoendorfer's garage to two
factories in China where the wheelchair components are produced at a cost of
about $60 each")

My comment:
(a) go off the deep end: "to enter recklessly on a course"
www.m-w.com

The "deep end" alludes to the deep end of a swimming pool.
(b) For "two-by-four," see

Lumber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber
("Dimensional lumber" is a term used for lumber that is finished/planed and
cut to standardized width and depth specified in inches. Examples of common
sizes are 2×4 (also two-by-four), 2×6, and 4×4; nominal 2 × 4 (in) but
actual (in) 1 1⁄2 in × 3 1⁄2 in (38 mm × 89 mm))

(c) The report does not say how and where the project gets its funding.

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