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: “Wheelchairs for Alfonso and His Dad”
Alfonso (28) and his father, Sergio (48), climbed into a small sailboat on the coast of Nicaragua one day, like they did every day, setting out into the waters of the Atlantic.
They are members of the Miskito indigenous community, a significant percentage of whom make a living as lobster divers.
It’s dangerous work ...
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