Tabs for Wheelchairs made its 2025 wheelchair presentation as seen on CTV News. This year there were enough drink can tabs to fill more about 460 bags, which exceeds last year’s collection.
Trailblazers participants and staff assist by receiving soda can tabs from schools and other donors. They sort tabs into bags throughout the school year. The tabs are later sold for scrap with money raised going towards wheelchairs.
Trailblazers receives tabs from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday except for holidays. (You can also call ahead to 204-257-0813 to drop tabs at 1069 Autumnwood Drive in Winnipeg. For tabs in Steinbach please call 204-320-5599.)
Tabs for Wheelchairs started in 1998. It now has more than 100 schools, about 200 businesses and community groups and hundreds of individuals participating. Millions of tabs are collected to purchase one wheelchair.