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: "Lifting Multiple Generations"
Greetings and happy Friday!
Recently a mission’s trip team went to Nicaragua to help deliver wheelchairs with our distribution partner Metanoia Missions International. One of the team members was a FWM Board Member, Stuart, who shared this story of how they were able to provide mobility to multiple generations:
One of the wheelchairs we distributed was for Antonia, who is 92 years old and lives with her daughter, Emma and Emma’s daughter, Martha. It was amazing to see three generations living together with the youngest, Martha, being 47 years old ...
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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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