From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Because of You, They Haven’t Been Forgotten"

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: "Because of You, They Haven’t Been Forgotten"

Salome is a kind, gentle woman in her late eighties.

She lives in a rural part of Costa Rica with her daughter, Rupertina, her son-in-law, and her granddaughter.

With limited economic opportunities in the area, Rupertina has long struggled to help support the family while taking care of her mother, who broke her hip in a nasty fall three years ago and has been unable to walk ever since.

Salome’s reduced mobility, coupled with her age, has progressively weakened her bod ...

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