From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Freed from Confinement”

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: “Freed from Confinement”

Daniel, 32, was once a high school teacher in Ghana. During a visit to the western part of the country, Daniel slipped and fell from some high rocks, sustaining a spinal cord injury that resulted in paralysis.

Daniel has been unable to walk ever since. He was also unable to continue his job because he could no longer get to the school where he taught.

He would spend the next two years confined to his room, battling feelings of depression that would wash over him, wishing that he were back in his classroom to nurture young mind ...

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