101 Donations

Donations! Donations! Donations!  So many kinds of donations keep the REquipment program operating.

Looking for a way to help your neighbors acquire free, gently used, durable medical equipment and assistive technology? Last year, we received well over 101 equipment donations. 2,225 devices, to be exact! We are so grateful to this community that makes this wonderful program possible.

“Thank you for all that you do for people like me. These are very expensive. I will now be able to get into bed/wheelchair and vehicle as I am no longer strong enough to do this myself.” – A man in Hardwick who requested a transfer board

Here’s the latest on what REquipment needs to serve more individuals with disabilities of all ages:

• Shower chairs. REquipment found new homes for 259 shower chairs last fiscal year, and now we need more, especially in the Worcester area. Please contact us if you have a shower chair you are not using. We can arrange a drop-off or pick-up of durable medical equipment and other large or heavy items.
• Devices for computer access. Recently, we found a new home for a foot-controlled mouse with a young adult who has cerebral palsy in Harwich Port. We’d love more items like this, including specialized keyboards and ergonomic pointers. REquipment has regional drop-off locations in New Bedford, E. Bridgewater, Salem, Worcester, W. Springfield, Amherst, and Pittsfield. We do not pick up smaller items.
• A warehouse in the northeast. We think big. We went statewide just a few years after our Greater Boston pilot in 2014. We have terrific partners (especially in the State House) who helped make that happen. We’d love to grow our capacity to reach further into communities that need us. Maybe you know someone with a building to donate to our 501(c)3 that would make a great regional reuse center?
• Devices for daily living. Do you have shoehorns or specialized utensils like weighted cutlery you are not using? Or perhaps a reacher-grabber tool? Last year, REquipment provided 135 devices of all kinds that support daily living tasks. Often, these are selected from our inventory at the same time as a larger piece of equipment, and we deliver all of them together. Donations of smaller items may be dropped off at one of our regional dropoff sites, and we very much appreciate them.
• Donations of money. It takes a lot more than equipment to keep our operation operational. Every single gift makes a difference. $45 will buy a pair of manual wheelchair armrests. $15 will purchase a bottle of Simple Green disinfectant. $80,000 will replace our oldest lift-equipped van for delivering durable medical equipment statewide. $5 buys one-third of a bottle of Simple Green (you get the idea). And, of course, accompanying notes like this are priceless:

“In memory of my dad, Harold Kams, who found independence and joy in his last year of life with the red scooter from REquipment.”

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