From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “A Better Quality of Life”

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 Better Quality of Life”

Michael had no idea he’d be taking his last few steps when he got out of bed that morning.

He earned a living as a day laborer on a banana farm in Costa Rica and was on his way to work, riding in the back of a pickup truck, when another vehicle slammed into it.

The impact sent him airborne. Michael landed on a rock and broke three vertebrae, severing his spinal cord. He has not been able to walk since.

The accident might have broken his back, but it did not break his spirit.

Michael was determined to do the best that he could with the life he has been given ...

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