Weekly Clips for May 9

After her amputation, Free attended amputee events, but found that they were mostly on the east coast. Still, she found ways to volunteer at events like children’s camps, and, “that’s what opened my eyes to a whole different world of … things you can do as amputees,” Free said. “It was very expensive to go back to North Carolina for the amputee conference, so then a friend of mine just said, ‘Why don’t you start a nonprofit?’”