Friday, December 25, 2020

From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “A Gift for Gift”

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: “A Gift for Gift”

Her parents had the perfect name for her.

When they first laid eyes on their beautiful baby girl, they named her Gift.

Gift was born with no hands or feet. When she was still a toddler, her parents took her and fled from their home in South Sudan due to violent conflict and deteriorating conditions.

In 2016, the family eventually made its way to a refugee camp in neighboring Uganda

Although she has led a challenging life, Gift has never stopped smiling...

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