From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Meet 1st Grade Philanthropist, Reagan"

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: "Meet 1st Grade Philanthropist, Reagan"

It’s always inspiring to see what children can do when they set their minds on achieving a goal.

Meet Reagan, a first-grader who lives in Ketchum, Idaho. Last summer, she attended a Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Bigwood Church, where, as part of the curriculum, they showed the children a video about Free Wheelchair Mission and the worldwide need for mobility.

The children were encouraged to gather loose change and donate the money to give wheelchairs to people with disabilities in developing nations.

Moved by what she had learned, Reagan set out to do more than that ...

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