From @FWMission ...Friday Story: "A Beautiful Work of Love"

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: "A Beautiful Work of Love"

Eleven-year-old Arnold Andres loves his family: father Francisco, mother Tomasa, brothers Jose (17) and Kenneth (15), and sister Reyna (10).

They live in a simple wooden shack constructed along the banks of the river Aguazul in Honduras.

There aren’t supposed to be homes along the river, but Francisco and Tomasa cannot afford to rent a house, much less buy one. Francisco ekes out a living by picking recyclables out of the city dump.

Arnold is unable to walk, having been born with hydrocephalus and spina bifida ...

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