From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Empowered and Inspired”

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: “Empowered and Inspired”

Yan, 66, and her husband raised two children in a village in China that has based its economy on agriculture for decades.

Over time comes change: Urban sprawl has been creeping into fields, consuming them beneath new buildings and roads. Yan’s children have grown up and moved away. And Yan’s life took a severe turn several years ago, when she suffered a stroke and was left with hemiplegic paralysis.

With their children away, Yan’s husband has served as her primary caregiver, helping her get from place to place—no easy feat for either of them as they both advance in age...

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