 Houston Children’s Charity is dedicated to enhancing the lives of underprivileged, handicapped and abused children in the Houston community and surrounding areas. The Chariots for Children Van Program was founded in 1996 to provide specifically designed and equipped vehicles to organizations with a similar mission.
Area children’s non-profits historically suffer budget constraints, creating an endless need for assistance with transportation. The Chariots for Children Van Program is self-funding. HCC must continually meet the challenge of funding this vitally needed program. We are always seeking corporate individual sponsorship to provide assistance.
For many children, our vans provide transportation to treatment or therapy. For some, a first step into a larger world. Transportation is restricted to child-related activities, whether for an outing to the zoo, a trip to the movies or a first visit to NASA or the Museum of Fine Arts.
Applicants must complete a full questionnaire and meet all of the required qualifications. Recipients are responsible for maintaining the vehicle costs, taxes and insurance, and must guarantee that they can meet these costs on a continuing basis.
Since 1996, Houston Children’s Charity has awarded 88 vans and 3 trucks to 79 agencies and 5 individual families, at a cost of $2,266,461 over the past 15 years.
The Chariots for Children logo and the name of the organization are displayed and maintained on the vehicle. The name of any corporation or individual providing support to this program may also be prominently displayed on the body of the van.
Handicap Accessible Van
Gary J. Lynn was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and is unable to walk. He is currently a patient at Texas Children’s Hospital. To transport him back and forth his parents must use a manual wheelchair. This wheelchair has to be broken down and placed in the trunk for each car trip. Gary is now 19 years old and continues to grow so transporting him is becoming more difficult.
Making It Better
12-passenger van
Making It Better (MIB) is a local non-profit, founded in 2006 by Jerry Davis, to address the severe disadvantages faced by low income children in the Houston area by providing them with academic intervention, positive activities, and adult role models. MIB works directly with teachers and administrators at each school to identify the needs of each child; thereby enabling tutors to give them individualized support, customizing programs to fit the student’s unique needs. MIB is the only agency providing tutoring services at no cost to at-risk children in west Houston.
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