Friday, January 26, 2018

From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "New Life at Eight"

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: "New Life at Eight"

For many children around the world, an eighth birthday is cause for celebration, anticipated with anxious excitement months in advance.

In Jamaica, however, a little boy named Antwon wasn’t so elated to turn eight. He faced his birthday with melancholy, just like he did the year before ...

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