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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High up in the Andes Mountains of Peru, in a small village at the end of a winding dirt road, lives a 33-year-old woman named Roció.
Roció contracted polio at the age of six. She walks with great difficulty, using a stick for support, and has never had a wheelchair before ...
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Local fundraiser going on NOW
Each October, 1st Presbyterian Chuch of Midland, Texas raises funds for global mission partner, Free Wheelchair Mission ...
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