Friday, September 20, 2019

From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Meet Hlobisle in Eswatini”

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: “Meet Hlobisle in Eswatini”

Hlobisle has always loved to sew, ever since she was a little girl in the rolling hills of Eswatini.

Her dream has been to make sewing her livelihood, but she didn’t have the resources to start her own small business.

Without an income, Hlobisle could not afford a wheelchair, either, and without mobility, she would need her granddaughter’s help to do day-to-day chores ...

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