From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Transforming Generations"

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: "Transforming Generations"

Khuong is a single mother who lives with her 14-year-old son in a small town in Vietnam. She has always been outgoing and loving, taking every opportunity to connect with the people around her.

When Khuong was 52, she suffered a stroke that paralyzed one side of her body, leaving her unable to stand, walk, or speak. Her son would help her while he was home, but as a studious eighth-grader, he would be away at school for much of the day, six days a week.

Khuong would then be left by herself, on her bed, unable to move on her own.

For an extrovert like her, the loneliness and isolation were almost unbearable ...

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