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The following story comes from Hebei Women’s Federation, our Chinese distribution partner:

“As the door opened, we faced a shocking sight.  A man with a fist-sized tumor on the back of his head had crawled to the door to greet us.  He was Xu Hai-Sheng, the man we had come to see. It was unbearably painful to see Xu kneeling before us in this condition. He had suffered for twenty-three years from a congenital disorder affecting the left side of his body. 

Both his knees were covered with thick calluses from years of crawling. His parents had sought treatment for him, but poverty forced them to abandon the effort.His immobility, along with the tumor, now isolated him from his community. We brought the Free Wheelchair Mission wheelchair inside and helped him into it. Xu cherishes this wheelchair more than anything else, for with it he can now move freely and even accomplish simple tasks.

Most of all, the wheelchair brought him a sense of dignity and pride.”