From @FWMission ... Friday Story: "Wings for Lotus Blossom"

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: "Wings for Lotus Blossom"

Greetings, and Happy Friday!

It was 14 years ago this year when I was on a plane headed for India. I was going on a mission trip with my church and had brought a few of the first GEN_1 wheelchairs I had developed with me hoping to find people who needed them. Little did I know, that one girl’s smile would pave the way to thousands more wheelchairs for people in need. That little girl’s name was Kumudavalli, which in English means Lotus Blossom and this is her story ...

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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."