From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Outside Again”

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: “Outside Again”

Today’s story comes from Moldova, the eastern European nation bordered by Ukraine on the northeast and Romania on the southwest.

There, a 53-year-old woman named Proskovya and her husband led a happy life together for many years, raising two beautiful daughters. Her life took a turn, however, when her husband passed away nine years ago and Proskovya was diagnosed with diabetes shortly thereafter ...
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