From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Unbridled Joy”

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: “Unbridled Joy”

Doris lives in a small village just outside of Malindi, a once-booming resort town in Kenya where the crystalline waters of the Indian Ocean gently lap at white sand beaches.

It’s always sunny in Malindi—and so is Doris. This ebullient 12-year-old radiates pure joy. She loves people and always yearns to be around others, even if she cannot speak to them.

When Doris was an infant, she developed hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess fluid puts pressure on the brain and can cause a range of impairments ...

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