PENDLETON — The Correctional Industrial Facility (CIF) recently shipped its latest shipment of refurbished wheelchairs for the Wheels for the World program.

Wheels for the World provides wheelchairs for people in need throughout the world.

The recent shipment of 224 wheelchairs was sent to Jordan, where they will make an immediate impact in the lives of the recipients, a program press release said.

During the past year, CIF has shipped chairs to El Salvador, Haiti, Palestine and now Jordan.

Since the shop opened in August 2013, it has shipped more than 3,150 wheelchairs.

“Each chair represents a life that has been dramatically improved by the increased mobility these chairs provide,” Warden Wendy Knight said.

The process involves four phases: collection, transportation, restoration and distribution.

Chair Corps, a nationwide network of volunteers, collects used but repairable wheelchairs and transports them to restoration shops in correctional facilities nationwide.

From there, offenders restore them to their original usefulness.

Disability specialists then fit each wheelchair to a recipient and provide him or her with training in the chair’s use and upkeep; they also provide recipients with a Bible in their language.

In some countries, the cost of a wheelchair can equal a year’s wages, making it almost impossible for those affected by disability to ever receive a wheelchair, officials said in a press release.