Charitable Chariots
Program & Fundraiser
Charitable Chariots at Northwest Iowa Community
College and the Iowa Automotive Recyclers (IAR)
have partnered in sponsoring a vehicle.
Steven
Youngs, Collision Instructor from Northwest Iowa
Community College in Sheldon, Iowa (712-324-5061
has developed a learning pro-
gram called
Charitable Chariots
. In the program stu-
dents at NCC refurbish a donated vehicle with used
auto parts as a training tool. The vehicle is then do-
nated to a recipient in need of transportation.
Professor Youngs works
with a social service
agency to locate a re-
cipient. Then the Media
Show begins. NCC
really does it up big for
the giveaway. The plan
for this vehicle is to do-
nate it at the Iowa Auto
Recyclers Summer Out-
ing June 13-14, 2104 in
Carroll.
Charitable Chariots pro-
gram is working on sev-
eral vehicles on right
now. The parts were
donated by Pat’s Auto
Salvage in Waterloo,
Iowa!
Thanks Pat
Rooff!
Chariots hopes to give
away a Venture Van,
Plymouth Breeze, and
the Buick Le Sabre in
May, and bring this
Durango to the 2014 Summer Outing!
Youngs and Charitable Chariots students also have a
pet project they are working on and hope to unveil at
the summer outing too; a 2001 Honda Civic that is
being refurbished as the Chariots promotional vehicle.
The Pre-Inspection sheet is used to evaluate the vehi-
cle and provide service to every car as a maintenance
update. This has an average cost per vehicle of
$1100. Each car is then evaluated for additional
needs and the information is added to the Pre-
Inspection sheet for parts acquisition.
The basic service package will be supported by the
Bootlegger’s Bus Tour event at the IAR Summer Out-
ing, June 14, 2014 in Carroll, Iowa.
To “sponsor” the event
contact Sue Schauls,
IAR Executive Director,
at 319-290-7843 or
or send a check to IAR,
2214 Regal Avenue,
Waterloo, Iowa 50702 –
no donations will be
turned away!
The partnership be-
tween IAR and Charita-
ble Chariots will con-
tinue to grow.
Steven
does an incredible job
finding the vehicles to
rehabilitate and with
continued parts dona-
tions/support from IAR
Members this worthy pro-
gram makes a huge im-
pact on the lives of the
recipients, the community
and the students who
take pride in their work
using used auto parts!
Send tax deductable donations payable to Charitable
Chariots to:
Northwest Iowa Comm College
c/o Steven Youngs
603 West Park St
Sheldon, Iowa 51201
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