Joni and Friends donates 250,000th wheelchair to Thai girl through prison restoration program
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Global disability ministry Joni and Friends reached a milestone by donating its 250,000th wheelchair to an 11-year-old Thai girl named Nada, who previously had to be carried everywhere by her mother. The wheelchair was restored by inmates through the Wheels for the World prison restoration program. Ministry President Shawn Thornton presented the wheelchair to Nada and her mother, Mim, in Thailand.
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