A U.S. charity organization has donated 575 new wheelchairs to disabled Moldovans.

In the same project, 12 nurses have been trained how to help the people with locomotion problems to choose the right wheelchair.

The Labor and Social Protection Ministry allocated 250,000 lei to have the wheelchairs assembled.

"The state allocates money for the sixth year to ensemble the wheelchairs for the disabled. It amounts to about one million lei and about three thousand wheelchairs have been assembled," said deputy minister Anastasia Oceretnîi.

There 15 thousand people with locomotion problems in Moldova.