Children do not cease to surprise us and their joy and overcoming infect us wanting to live all. A very representative example is Ahmad Rahman, one of the victims of the war in Afghanistan: with only eight months he lost his leg right in a minefield in Afghanistan.
Since then he has been attended by the International Red Cross, which at five years has made him the most beautiful gift in the world, in view of his reaction: an orthopedic leg that has returned mobility, and has celebrated by marking a dance. The video, recorded by one of his physiotherapists, has gone viral.
Ahmad received artificial limb in @ICRC_af Orthopedic center, he shows his emotion with dance after getting limbs. He come from Logar and lost his leg in a landmine. This is how his life changed and made him smile. pic.twitter.com/Sg7jJbUD2V
- Roya Musawi (@roya_musawi) May 6, 2019
Smile again
Roya Musawi, spokesman for the Red Cross in Afghanistan, shared the video of Ahmed on his Twitter account, to show how the prosthesis he received at the Physical Rehabilitation Center of the Afghan delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) "He changed his life and made him smile again".
The boy lost his right leg with only eight months in a minefield in Logar province, south of Kabul, during a confrontation between the Taliban and government forces.
In Babies and more With seven years, this model girl without legs is an example of overcomingAccording to an ICRC report, some 750,000 people are threatened by mines and unexploded war munitions and 46,194 patients have received attention in this center due to amputations, after several years of war in the country.
And it is that Afghanistan has more than one million people with physical disabilities, one of the highest rates in the world. Luckily, images like Ahnmad's bring hope.
