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: “The Trip of a Lifetime”
Isabella was visibly nervous.
She hadn’t been out of her house in years.
She was 98 years old. A great-grandmother. And she lives with dementia.
Her own safety was one reason that her family kept her at home in Machachi, a town surrounded by volcanoes 20 miles south of Quito, Ecuador.
Another reason is that they could not afford the wheelchair they’d need to take her anywhere ...
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