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WF Announces 2024 Spring Grant Recipients

The Welger Foundation is excited to announce the recipients of the 2024 Spring Grant process! We received nine applications and granted funds to five recipients, listed below. The applicants spanned ages from 8-18 and included athletes involved in sledding, fencing, basketball and tennis. Congratulations to our Grant winners!

The 2024 Fall Grant application process begins September 1, 2024 and closes November 1, 2024. For more information, please visit the Grants page.

Dante Limoli

Age: 7
Home: Yorktown Heights, NY
Sport: Sled Hockey

Gabriel Mora

Age: 14
Home: Brooklyn, NY
Sport: Sled Hockey

Jorge Farro

Age: 14
Home: Brooklyn, NY
Sport: Sled Hockey

Moustafa Eldeeb

Age: 12
Home: Staten Island, NY
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball

Maximus Wong

Age: 16
Home: Bayside, NY
Sport: Wheelchair Tennis

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Christa and Saul first met at the 1958 Stoke Mandeville Games and renewed their friendship in 1959 at those Stoke Mandeville Games. Fate would bring them back together at the 1960 inaugural Paralympics in Rome, Italy. Lured by the promise of excellent food and spare wheelchair parts, Christa ventured over to the American tent along with a few of her teammates. Saul and Christa started a conversation, but while he stepped away to refill their plates, another athlete came in to charm her. Naturally competitive, Saul shooed the young admirer away. The games were a success for both Christa and Saul—she won eight medals and he won two, but the true win was the start of their romance.

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The Christa and Saul Welger Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with Tax ID# 84-2550213.

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