From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Confident and Free After 30 Years, Thanks to You"

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: "Confident and Free After 30 Years, Thanks to You"

The Quang Nam Province is one of the most forested provinces of Vietnam, with more than half of its area covered in lush woodland. Here, 52-year old Van lives with his younger sister in the village of Thanh Van, where he owns a small grocery store.

Thirty years ago, while working in the forest, Van suffered an accident that caused severe trauma to his backbone and spinal cord, leaving him permanently without the use of his legs.

Van’s injury left him confined to his bed, completely dependent on his little sister for even the most basic of his needs as he was unable to move on his ow ...

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