From @FWMission ... Friday Story: "Renewed Hope"

Founded in 2001, Free Wheelchair Mission is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled in developing nations. Headquartered in Irvine, California, FWM works around the world in partnership with a vast network of humanitarian, faith-based and government organizations, sending wheelchairs to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, providing not only the gift of mobility, but of dignity, independence, and hope.

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Friday Story: "Renewed Hope"

Greetings and happy Friday!

Hope, dignity, independence. These are all things many of us take for granted at one point or another. It is bad enough struggling with these feelings, but when they are compounded with the loss of mobility, life is truly difficult. This week I share a story of a young man in India:

Ruben was the only member of his family to go to school and during his 12thstandard (similar to 12thgrade in the US) he had to drop out of school to care for his ailing parents. He got a job as a painter and worked hard to provide for his family. Four years ago he became sick with a severe fever that affected his brain. The fever was so extreme that it caused paralysis of both of his legs.

After taking care of his ailing parents for over a decade, the 30 year old man was now dependent upon his elderly father to care for him ...

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