From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "Look How Far Indra Has Come"

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: "Look How Far Indra Has Come"

On July 26th, at the 15th annual Miracle of Mobility gala, we celebrated stories of lives transformed by the gift of a wheelchair.

One of the stories began in 2001 in a suburb of Chennai, India, where we gave away our first four wheelchairs. There, we met Indra, a young woman who was 16 years old at the time.

She had contracted polio as a child and could not walk. Her parents couldn’t afford to provide the care she needed, so they put her in a home for children living with physical and mental challenges in hopes she would receive therapy to walk.

Sadly, her body did not respond to the therapy ...

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