With his mother Susan pushing, Madon Wanamaker takes a ride Tuesday in his new stroller. Variety the Children's Charity and Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV presented adaptive bikes, strollers and communication devices in Grove City.

GROVE CITY — Susie Wanamaker is determined for her son Madon to walk.

Variety’s 2016 Life-Changing Tour for Kids is helping make that possible.

Variety the Children’s Charity, along with Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV, on Tuesday gave away six strollers, three communication devices and two adaptive bicycles to disabled children at Unit IV’s building in Grove City.

For Madon, 4, the stroller will be key in helping him to walk. Madon has the congenital disorder Glycosylation, and doctors are not sure if he’ll be able to walk.

“He’s on the path to walk right now,” said his mother of Cranberry Township. “We went with this option instead of the wheelchair option because we’re hopeful that he will be one of the kids that walks.

“This will just give him the breaks he needs. He is starting to walk.”

The collapsible stroller that was given to the Wanamakers is part of a tour that began March 29 at St. Francis University of Loretto, Cambria County, and will stop at 40 counties in the state before ending May 9.

One of the stops was made April 4 in Marshall Township, Allegheny County, where Variety and XTO Energy gave away five adaptive bicycles to children.

“What happens to our kids is they’re left out all the time,” said Charles Lavallee, chief executive officer of Variety. “They became very isolated. They’re sitting on the porch. When I look at this equipment, (it allows them) to be kids more.”

The bicycles are donated under the My Bike program, while the communication devices are donated with the My Voice program and the strollers with the My Stroller program.

For Tuesday’s presentation, Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV found children in need through the organization’s therapists and special education teachers.

“It just enhances what we already do,” said Unit IV executive director Wayde Killmeyer. “It’s part of our mission to serve the neediest kids and this gives us a way to serve them even more than usual.”

One of the two families receiving bicycles was the Yori family. Kassidy Yori, 10, of Rimersburg will be able to pedal and steer while her mother Bethany Yori holds onto the back of the bike.

Bethany Yori is thrilled that her daughter will be able to join in when her siblings are riding bikes.

“We love being outside,” Bethany Yori said. “It’s just going to be great for us to see them all together.”

The three communication devices that were given out were to families with children who are non-verbal.

Carla Smith of New Castle received an iPad, that allows her son Jacob Smith, 16, to communicate either through pictures or words on the iPad to tell her his needs and wants.

“It’ll be so much better in that he can communicate with us if he is sick,” Carla Smith said.

For Danna Fleeson and her son, Andrew, 20, the communication device already has worked wonders.

“It’s no longer a guessing game,” Danna Fleeson said. “It just changed my whole world, his whole world.”

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is the founding sponsor of the My Bike, while the Jack Buncher Foundation is the primary sponsor of the My Voice and My Stroller.