For more information about joining us in Mexico, donating mobility equipment, to provide financial support, etc, feel welcome to contact us. We are currently in Mexico, the fastest, most reliable way to contact us is through email. You can also contact us via cell phone, by calling the phone numbers listed below.
We look forward to hearing from you, and thank you for your willingness to make a difference in the life of someone with a disability.
Richard & Hazuki St.Denis Email: Richard@WorldAccessProject.org
Email: Hazuki@WorldAccessProject.org Richard: (520) 343-4402 (U.S. and Mexico withough long-distance charges).
Mail may be sent to: World Access Project Corporate Office
c/o Richard St.Denis
7535 East Shore Drive
Tucson, AZ 85715
Get to Know our Staff & Board Members:
Richard St.Denis
Richard St.Denis, the Director of World Access Project, was previously the Recreation & Sports Director of The Mobility Project until the organization closed in August 2009.
Richard is a retired attorney and veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He was a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team (1990-93), and 3rd in the world in the Downhill in 1990. He is a certified Ski and Tennis Instructor for people with disabilities.
His long-term vision for World Access Project is that it will someday be run by Mexican people with disabilities who will help other people with disabilities in Mexico become more independent, develop employable skills, participate in their community, and love God. His dog Gozo was born in Guadalajara.
Jim & Carol Wilson
Jim Wilson is the Director of Wheelchair Collections and Refurbishing in Mariposa, California, and is the head of wheelchair distributions. Jim is in business repairing and restoring classic automobiles. He and his wife Carol have been serving the disabled poor for eight years.
Carol Wilson is a Member of World Access Project’s Board of Directors. She lives in Mariposa, California where she is a Middle School librarian.
Contact Jim Wilson
Phone: 209-742-1795
Daniel Perkins is our newest staff member
Daniel spent the first 15 years of his life as an M.K./P.K. (missionary kid/ preachers kid) in the state of Sonora, country of Mexico. In 1977, Daniel returned to the USA, completed high school and has a degree in aviation from LeTourneau University. In 1987 he began working as an independent contractor for a mission organization that provided aircraft transportation to missionaries in Mexico.
Daniel’s wife Jill is a successful interior designer in the state of OR and AZ. She also worked for a number of years as a certified nursing assistant and received numerous awards for her service. Between them, they have three grown daughters and one grandson.
Daniel and Jill started and operated a general contracting construction firm, “Firm Foundation Construction and Remodeling, Inc., until the recent collapse of the housing market. Now they run a small motorcycle and ATV shop from their home called “Grandpaw Shop” that continues on to this day.
Both Daniel and Jill have been active in the local community and their neighborhood, and hosted a weekly bible study at their home. They are also heavily involved in cross-cultural ministry work – planting two Messianic congregations, and teaching in a very diverse Hispanic congregation in their local community. Jill disciples women to be Godly women according to God’s word. Daniel and Jill have a combined total of 50 years in diverse ministries, both to the local church and foreign missions.
Daniel and Jill have accepted the challenge of working with World Access Project as it will allow the unlimited use of their talents and spiritual gifts. Daniel and Jill are in the process of raising their financial support for their work with World Access Project, however; the Perkins have committed to working with World Access Project without a penny ever been raised for their support.
Daniel is the Director for wheelchair collection and refurbishing for the state of Arizona and for shipping and assisting in their transport to Mexico. He is also working on developing a wheelchair that will be adaptable from 12” wide for a child to 20” wide for an adult, and easily constructed from off-the-shelf local materials in a third world country.
We hope the Perkins will be able to get ‘on-board’ as soon as possible, as they are 100% committed. All they need is your financial assistance and you prayers. If you would like to contribute financially for the funding of this project, we welcome your participation as Daniel is operating on a shoestring budget of only $2,000.00 that has been raised for engineering, fabrication, materials cost and transport as well as Daniel’s time for 6 weeks of work and 2 weeks of travel in Mexico.
Contact info:
E-mail: Daniel@WorldAccessProject.org Phone: 520-904-5530 Address: 6314 East Duke Drive, Tucson, AZ 85710
Dave Layton serves as the Board treasurer for the World Access Project. In this capacity he works with Richard St. Denis and the other board members to ensure that the finances of the organization are in good order and that your donations continue to support our core goal of providing mobility to people with disabilities in Mexico.
To keep overhead expenses as low as possible, he receives no compensation (and neither do the other board members), which means that more resources can be allocated to wheelchair purchases and distributions.
He and his wife Linda have lived in Tucson, Arizona, since 2004. Prior to moving to Tucson, Dave worked as an environmental scientist for the University of California at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. He was also a publically elected board member of the Zone 7 water agency (1992-2004), which provides water to nearly 200,000 people in the Livermore Valley.
In retirement, Dave devotes part of his time to writing a technical book on human exposures to toxic substances and conducting related research as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Arizona. He and Linda enjoy bird watching and site seeing in the beautiful Southwestern U.S.