From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Restoring Joy in Ecuador"

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: "Restoring Joy in Ecuador"

We received an encouraging report from Isabel Valdez de Escala of Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil (JBG), one of our distribution partners in Ecuador, where you have helped send 21,460 wheelchairs to date.

One of them is a girl named Jennifer, the fourth of five children born in a suburb of Guayaquil, the largest, most populous city in the country. Now eight years old, Jennifer was born prematurely with cerebral palsy, facial paralysis, and club foot.

Her mother shared that Jennifer has never been able to walk or crawl ...

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