Syrian Girl: Using Tin Cans as Legs

in syrian •  6 years ago 

8-year-old Syrian girl uses tin cans as legs

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Maya Mohammad Ali Merhi uses prosthetic legs made by her father from tin cans. The eight-year-old lives in a camp for displaced people in the northern Syrian province of Idlib.

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Maya and her father were both born without lower limbs. Unable to afford real prosthetic limbs, her father made her a pair out of tin cans filled with cotton and scrap pieces of cloth. Maya's family had to flee their home in Aleppo because of fighting.

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Maya and her father were both born without lower limbs. Unable to afford real prosthetic limbs, her father made her a pair out of tin cans filled with cotton and scrap pieces of cloth. Maya's family had to flee their home in Aleppo because of fighting. e in other countries near and far.'

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