From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Waiting and Trusting”

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: “Waiting and Trusting”

Dorcas, 23, is the oldest of nine children, born to a farmer’s family in rural Bomet County, Kenya.

She has lived with a disability for most of her life.

Without mobility, Dorcas would need help from her mother and younger brothers to get from place to place.

Throughout the years, various people and organizations would promise to get her a wheelchair. Dorcas patiently waited, but none of them were ever able to fulfill these promises.

So, Dorcas continued to pray and wait ...

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