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Lisa Fernandez
Lisa Fernandez is an Orthopedic nurse at UW Hospital and is board certified as a Medical/Surgery Nurse. She holds a Capstone Certificate in Global Health.
| Lisa made her first trip to Nicaragua in 1999 when she delivered 52 wheelchairs to children in areas devastated by Hurricane Mitch. When she returned to Wisconsin, she founded The Wisconsin/Nicaragua Wheelchair Project (WNWP), now under the umbrella of the Wisconsin Medical Project. WNWP partners with Familias Especiales - an NGO in Matagalpa, Nicaragua that serves handicapped children and their families. Familias Especiales provides a full service shop where wheelchairs and other mobility devices are repaired, fitted, and distributed free of charge to Nicaraguans in need. WNWP provides Nicaraguan workers with professional training and furnishes the materials for wheelchair refurbishment (tools, machinery and replacement parts). Since its founding, WNWP has distributed over 1100 wheelchairs; the majority being pediatric specialty chairs |
 Lisa Fernandez
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WNWP annually ships an average of two forty-foot containers of supplies and equipment to ‘Familias Especiales’. The material aid supports numerous programs aiding handicapped children and their families and supplies the ongoing needs of the wheelchair workshop in Matagalpa. WNWP has also shipped more than 600 school desks and hundreds of boxes of school supplies to remote schools in Mulukuku, and furniture, wheelchairs, walkers and personal care items to a home for the elderly in Jinotepe, Nicaragua.
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