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: “The Hope That We Have”
Samuel (14, India) was a healthy child and lived like any other boy his age, playing with his friends and playing hide-and-seek in their dense, urban neighborhood.
But that all changed when he was in third grade.He was out with his mother, father, and sister when he started feeling very weak. His feet began twisting inwards, and he couldn’t get up by himself.
Alarmed, his parents rushed him to a hospital ...
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