By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

For a woman who is 110 years old, local senior Mother Ruby Muhammad gets around pretty good. Mother Ruby will now be able to do even better thanks to the generosity of the Scooter Store.

Mother Ruby Muhammad, who is 110 years old, is getting used to her new set of wheels. Photo (c) Observer / Larry V. Dalton

The Scooter Store, the nation’s leading provider of power wheel chairs and scooters, donated a free motorized wheelchair to Mother Ruby on Jan. 25, delivering it to her apartment as part of its Gift of Mobility program.

Each year the program donates more than $200,000 in power wheelchairs, scooters and manual wheelchairs, which enable individuals to have “freedom, independence and personal dignity.”

Mother Ruby, who was dubbed the Mother of the Nation of Islam by Minister Louis Farrakhan, enjoys her status as a supercentenarian and has been recognized by a number of local organizations, including The Sacramento OBSERVER, who named her one of its Women of Inspiration in 2007.