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A
Family's Story
We arrived
to the front of a simple home in a barrio in
Santiago. There were four children playing outside
on it. When they saw our wheelchair they knew it
was for their dad. They smiled and led us towards
the door. On the way they introduced themselves.
They kept pointing to their sister Ana, a cute,
thin seven year old girl with a shaved head. They
wanted us to know that she had cancer. The
children led us inside where their father was
lying on a sofa.
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He was partially
paralyzed. We told him that we had brought him a wheelchair
to help him get around. When we asked him if we could lift
him onto it he said, "Oh no, my wife is the only one
that can lift me."
So, one of the
children ran down the street to get his mum at a neighbour's
house. When she arrived, she squatted down, hoisted her
husband up, and bent him with difficulty in order to get him
into the chair. Immediately tears of joy and gratitude
started flowing from his eyes. His children were hugging him
and telling them how happy they were for him.
We asked him how he
became ill. He replied, "I became sick a year ago when
I found out my daughter has cancer." His daughter, Ana,
is the one giving him a hug.
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Lee Van's
Story
Having
suffered from inborn bandy legs for 58 years. Le
Van always felt shameful when being asked about
married life. "Who would marry a bandy-legged
man like me, I am familiar with single life,"
He is now living with his older brother who is
married with three children.
When winter
comes, both his legs become painful and he can
barely walk one step. "I do not want to ask
my brother and nieces for any help, they have to
study, have to work to earn for a living, I do not
want to be a burden on them, I like to do things
all by myself."
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However, he sometimes
still needs help from his relatives, especially when he
wants to visit neighbours and relatives, or play chess with
friends. "I always need someone to lead me by my side
whenever I have to travel for a long distance, I cannot take
a long walk."
Though being disabled,
every day he wanders around the village, hoping to be hired
to do something, anything, to earn a little money for daily
bread. "It is very undependable. When no one has the
need for me, that day I have nothing for the meals and I
depend on my brothers. Sometimes my neighbours ask me to go
buy things for them. Then I need speed, I need a wheelchair
to roll."
On the day of the
Wheelchair Distribution, he was thrilled and wanted to
express his happiness to everyone. "From now on, I can
travel more comfortably in my village to be hired much more
and I can support myself," Le Van climbed into his
wheelchair and rolled home himself with his strong
hands.
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XU's
Story
"As the
door opened, we faced a shocking sight. A man with
a fist-sized tumor on the back of his head had
crawled to the door to greet . He was Xu Hai-Sheng,
the man we had come to see. It was unbearably
painful to see Xu kneeling before us in his
condition.
He had
suffered for twenty three years from a congenital
disorder affecting the left side of his body. Both
his knees were covered with thick calluses from
years of crawling.
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parents had sought treatment from him, but poverty
forced them to abandon the effort. His immobility,
along with the tumor, now isolated him from his
community.
We brought
the Free Wheelchair inside and helped him into it.
Xu cherishes this wheelchair more than anything
else, for with it he can now move freely and even
accomplish simple tasks.
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This
article is about the outstanding victory of Litty. It
appeared in the Kerala newspaper in June 2007.The title of
the article is “Triumph of Victory Against Faith”. It
is literally suitable to the successful story of Litty. This
courageous young woman conquered her disability and fate
through her glittering success in recent school
examinations.
Litty is one of the inmates of House of Providence Care
Center. The Sister Superior of the Center found Litty in a
hospital when she was six months old. Her parents deserted
her due to her disability. She can’t walk or stand.
Her hands and legs are too small and they are twisted.
Moreover, her hands have no fingers. Alas, she must crawl to
get around.
All
this aside, Litty is a good student at
N.S.S
Higher
Secondary School
. She gets to school by auto-rickshaw, but then must
crawl to get around. When Litty`s story became known a
Wheelchair was rushed to the Center. She no longer needs to
crawl.
Litty
can write if she holds the pen in both hands at once. She
got an outstanding result in these recent examinations, and
this opens the door for her to continue her education. We
feel very proud of her glittering victory. We want to
contribute to her success, along with her presence of mind
and confidence. She will be in our prayers and perhaps in
yours too. You can see the article about her from a
daily news paper and her photograph with a cheerful face.
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