Our dear friends Tom and Patty brought this story back from a recent mission trip they took with their family to distribute wheelchairs to Cambodia and Vietnam:

“I want to go to school. I feel so sad because I can not stand up or walk like other normal children. Looking at them going out, I cry a lot and wish I could go out to play with my friends.”

These words are from a girl named Doan Thi Nhat Oanh. Her parents are poor farmers.  They live in Binh Dinh Province.

“When my mom was pregnant with me, she had a traffic accident and it affected my development in the womb. I have been in a paralytic situation since I was born.”

Doan has been paralyzed for 14 years so she just stays at home.

Despite her less-fortunate fate, she has never given up the dream of finishing her studies.  She has wished to have a wheelchair to go to school everyday and to go out with her friends.