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Father creates low cost prosthetic legs for his daughter

Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-04-22 20:18

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Maya, born in 2010, and her father, live at a camp for displaced refugees, in Syria. They both suffer from a conditional called congenital amputation and the cause of this condition is unknown.

Because Mohammed couldn’t afford to get Maya traditional prosthetic, we made a pair using cans filled with cotton and pieces of cloth.

“I mounted some plastic on two tins of sardines with which she can go to school with. My heart suffers when I see her crawling in front of friends, while they play and run. It hard, but those are better than nothing”, the inventor explained.

Mohammed dreams that he and his daughter can one day be able to walk.

Adapted from: http://bit.do/eQiMs

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Maya Ali Merhi and father Mohammed, born and living in Syria, were both born with no legs. Because he couldn't afford traditional prosthetics, Mohammed built, in 2018, his daughter prosthetic legs by using sardine tins.

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