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: "Newfound Freedom"
Greetings and happy Friday!
The gift of a wheelchair often brings more to the recipient’s life than just mobility. It can also bring about a sense of relief, it can ease a burden and it can change the lives of not only the recipient but their caregivers. This week’s story really shows how the gift of a wheelchair can lift up a recipient and change the lives of those around them; it comes to us from Colombia and our Distribution Partner, Children International:
Francia is a 51 year old mother of one adult daughter. Fourteen years ago, Francia began suffering from a disease that has robbed her of the ability to see and walk ...
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Want to take one of these wheelchairs for a test drive? During normal business hours, visit the lobby at the Texas Street entrance of First Presbyterian Church-Midland, at the northwest corner of Texas and A streets, on the west side of downtown Midland. You can give the gift of mobility. The cost of $72.00 is a bargain to us ... but it is a life-changing gift to impoverished and disabled recipients ... and there are times when your contribution will be matched, reaching not one - but TWO, and sometimes FOUR recipients. Please note on your check "Wheelchair Gift."
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