Get to Know our Staff & Board Members:

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.  He has been providing wheelchairs to people with disabilities since 1997.  Richard is a retired attorney and disabled 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 & Tennis Instructor for people with disabilities.  He and Hazuki live in Mexico most of the year.  Richard’s long-term vision for World Access Project is that it will someday be run by Mexican people with disabilities help other disabled Mexicans become more independent, confident, successful, and have faith in God.

Hazuki was born and raised in Japan until she was 13, when her family moved to Mexico  because of her father’s business.  After living in Guadalajara three years she returned to Japan and finished high school and university.  With God’s guidance, she returned to Guadalajara to the school, where she had been a student, and taught in a Christian bilingual school for ten years.  During that time, she met Richard at one of his sports camps, in which she was a volunteer.  Five years later were married and she now serves people with disabilities with Richard.  She recently started a school for people who were not able to continue their studies due to their disability, using A.C.E. (Accelerated Christian Education), thesystem which she used in Guadalajara.

Richard Richard@WorldAccessProject.org (520) 343-4402  Hazuki Hazuki@WorldAccessProject.org (520) 343-4328   U.S./Mexico numbers (no long-distance charge)     Mexico Cell Phone – 011-52-712-289-6423

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.

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 publicly 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.

Daniel Perkins has resigned his position as Arizona Wheelchair Collection and Refurbishment director for World Access Project to work along-side us in full time ministry in Mexico.  Their target date for arriving in Mexico is Spring 2012, or as soon as they complete raising their financial support.

Daniel is fully bilingual, as he was raised in the remote “Sierra Madre Mountains” in Mexico, as the eldest son of a missionary family. As an adult, he served more than 9 years in Mexico in missionary aviation.  Daniel is a highly skilled aircraft mechanic and has a knack for fixing anything.

Daniel and his wife Jill have a combined 50 years of experience working in diverse cross-cultural ministries both stateside as well as in a foreign country. For most of their adult life, both have been self employed entrepreneurs.

Daniel’s Address: 6314 East Duke Drive, Tucson, AZ 85710    Cell :520-904-5530  /  Email: Daniel@WorldAccessProject.org

For Information about Wheelchair Collections contact Richard at 520-343-4402 or Richard@WorldAccessProject.org

Richard McInturff has been on the Board of Directors since January 2010. Richard and his wife Ophelia are active in our wheelchair collection projects, Mexico distributions, and Sports Camp Coaching.

He and Ophelia live in Mariposa, Ca. Richard has been self-employed for 30 years as a Personnel Recruiter for the Financial Services industry. He attended Duke University graduating in 1975 with a BA in Economics.

He and Ophelia are very active with the Mariposa Rotary Club, avid road cyclist, hikers (we live near Yosemite Natl. Park) and travelers. They were married in 1998 in Yosemite. Ophelia serves as the Women’s Ministry Director of their church.

Richard’s e-mail; richardm@worldaccessproject.org Cell: 209-628-2170

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”