The Montgomery County Students Automotive Trades Foundation (ATF) at Damascus High School recently refurbished a Town and Country accessibility van for the family of a former MCPS and current Montgomery College student.
In 2019, Saniya Lipford, a former student at Thomas S. Wootton High School, lost her left leg and left arm from a blood clot in her lungs. Between the medical bills, extended recovery time and rehabilitation services, Saniya and her family have struggled. Now a student at Montgomery College, Saniya requested the ATF’s support to ensure that her family’s accessibility van was a reliable source of transportation.
Students and their instructors diagnosed and fixed the van. Earlier this month, the ATF board of directors and Damascus students returned the van to the Lipford family. In the photo below, Michelle Lipford helps her daughter Saniya on to the accessibility van refurbished by students at Damascus High School. Courtesy of MCPS
