From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Supply Chain Challenges”

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: “Supply Chain Challenges”

In August, we first brought you news about the challenges we face with the shipping industry.

This topic has increasingly made its way into mainstream news as scores of ships idle off the coast of Long Beach, California and other congested ports, waiting for a chance to unload containers of goods. As you might have noticed, this worldwide disruption in the supply chain has resulted in a shortage of many items at your local stores.

And now, not only has the logistics and inventory side of our work been challenged, but so has the production and manufacturing side ...

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Celebrate the Holidays With the Gift of Mobility

This season, give a gift that keeps on giving!

Purchase a Christmas or Holiday Card and you will gift a free wheelchair to someone in a developing country who desperately needs one but cannot afford one.

Or, in lieu of or in addition to greeting cards, you can give a donation as part of our “Season of Giving.” Make a tax-deductible, year-end gift by December 31 to take advantage of current tax laws.

For more information, visit FreeWheelchairMission.org/SeasonOfGiving