BYU students try out all-terrain wheelchairs in Dominican Republic

INSERT FIRST PARAGRAPH HEREA group of MBA students from Brigham Young University are conducting a marketing study in the Dominican Republic to find out if needy people in third-world countries want wheelchairs with aggressive mountain bike tires or if they prefer the traditional kind with solid rubber wheels.

"I am so glad and I say thank God you are here," said Association of Rehabilitation Director Peggy Batista as four BYU students and their professor delivered wheelchairs to a clinic in the remote village of Harabacoa. The church sent the first batch of test chairs in October. Three weeks later the students arrived to survey the users. "She is saying that she likes this one better because this rim right here feels better because it is thicker," said Steven Moser, a BYU student studying business administration who questioned the users with a clip board in his hands.

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