From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “'Big Thank-You' from Kenya”

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: “'Big Thank-You' from Kenya”

Irine, a 7-year-old girl who was born with spina bifida, recently received her first wheelchair from Tenwek Hospital, one of our distribution partners in Kenya.

“She asked me to send you all a big thank-you,” relayed Solomon (below; left), the physical therapist overseeing the wheelchair program at Tenwek. “She is now ready to go to school and church, and participate in community activities” ...

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