This story comes from Rashid Logistics Manager and Translator for AmeriCares Foundation ADRA Kyrgyzstan.  We gave them a container this past January. 

I am responsible for taking some of the stories that we acquired and putting them in English for you to read. These were heartbreaking stories. They touched my heart. I saw people that received these wheelchairs. They cried when they received the wheelchairs from my hands. They thanked God. They thanked ADRA Kyrgyzstan. They thanked the Free Wheelchair Mission. They thanked AmeriCares. They thanked the government of the Kyrgyz Republic for being most generous in giving its time and space for the distribution of these wheelchairs.

I was also in charge of facilitating the building and distribution of the wheelchairs.   They are easily assembled. The honorable Minister of Labour and Social Protection gave great assistance. The government of the Kyrgyz Republic loves its people and they proved this by dedicating their energies to making this distribution a great success. This country is full of honorable men and women that work tirelessly to assist the Kyrgyz people. They give everything they can give, but the country is so poor, and the government has so little. Free Wheelchair Mission did a wonderful thing by providing these wheelchairs to the people who need them the most. The wheelchairs are light-weight but strong. They are a real blessing.

Here is one of my favorite stories:

I prayed to God and asked him to either take me away or let me meet another person who can help me to live.  After this prayer I met my husband, and we now have two children.  My husband is blind.  Together we are a single whole person.  He is my legs and I am his eyes.  We are so poor, but now I have my very own wheelchair!

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