From @FWMission ... Friday Story: "The Love of Learning"

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: "The Love of Learning"

Greetings and happy Friday!

In the developing world, education can be difficult to achieve—it is too expensive or very difficult to access, so many children never receive any type of schooling. This week I take you to Zambia and share with you a child who couldn’t wait to get to school and how the gift of mobility made it all possible:

When James was just an infant, his mother found out that he would never have enough strength in his legs for proper use and he would never be able to walk. The youngest of six children, James worked hard to be “just like everyone else” and often had questions about why he was not like the other children.

His mother worked hard to treat him the same as she did her other children and wanted James to receive an education, but the nearby schools lacked the proper facilities for children with disabilities ...

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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."