Friday, May 30, 2014

From @FWMission ... Friday Story: "Sincere Gratitude"

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.


Friday Story: "Sincere Gratitude"

Greetings and happy Friday!

Your partnership with Free Wheelchair Mission does more than lift someone off the ground, it literally transforms their lives and those of their caregivers. This week I want to share with you a story of a woman in Vietnam who expressed her sincere gratitude for her new wheelchair.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Le was born in 1958. Due to impacts of herbal pesticides used in rural areas of Vietnam, Ms. Le was born with leg deformities making it impossible for her to walk ...

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