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party for the fires there's no more number of new. stuff to be cut by. the way the story isn't what can make a difference. it's a fact. that the day 6 days a week to work here is financed and furious but it's not because all machines that they've building it's bodies one place that it could be in there as a target. to say she used the red cross' defeated center in afghanistan has been a life line for people with disabilities victims of strikes accidents and congenital illness. how many limbs they make the patients keep coming.
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one on one east meets the remarkable people risking their lives to help the disabled in war torn afghanistan. sunday morning in the afghan capital kabul. it's the start of the working week. and the busiest day at the red cross is also puting and physical rehabilitation center. hundreds of patients have come for treatment some have traveled for days risking landmines and taliban checkpoints to get to. the other the inside physiotherapist karim. is doing her best to calm the
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newest patient ok they know because the quote unquote off that. 6 year old you surf hasn't walked for months ever since he was injured in a houston run car crash they all that became i now got made most. other they all the behave the. way it ended up on the my neck and. by all of them using it. his grandmother says he's already been through several painful surgeries he's now terrified of doctors know all about her cargo whatever. the bitch got in either the one other boss my mother and others out the top of having a lock on. because i never look below higher cause i doubt he's a ducky. you know that. it's kareem is job to help you save from iraq again but it won't be easy. i was going to him out there
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that are already there was i'm other than are we are these are mother these i want his legs are a mangled mess but she's more worried about the scars she can't see the child is very sad because. the other child is they walk and they it and i play but he's always at them on the wheelchair. things maybe you know i walk. home. despite his injuries yousif is very lucky outside we meet his 16 year old isra who'd lost his leg in the same accident. he knew so for waiting for a bus home from the market when a speeding car plowed into them when he can only know i was in an open or dock with the driver tried to break but the car started flipping us over what you saw a voice hit it went flying into the ditch i'm awkward to all of them marches on
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doesn't look good and i was pulled below the car and my leg went under the wheels still in yonder with the car going down the fella around the pole. on the question when i tried to pull it i saw blood pouring out it was everywhere all over my clothes i started screaming my leg humping my leg. is translate was completely severed but his worst fee is we feed you so if you support our kids use of force in the children's hospital and he went into a coma for $6.00 days the exam there was only a 5 percent chance he'd survive it. are you i was crying a lot for you sign out or no i thought he was definitely gonna. my family started to bring me pictures of him every day to prove that he was still alive from an old and. ever since there is trouble hasn't taken his eyes off his nephew on.
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august. use of small souls are so weak that he's going to need leg braces to help him stand guard after the people get. to which he doesn't only got your cheek i got to be a watch until the arm under his arm on the ballot. recount panned over and over and over. to. istra the recovery is going to be even tougher he needs a whole new press that he call a. brother moment the older brother or her brother the bully got. the ability. or. how about more more more on her show her that i
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don't want women or much american to buy the come out of. my father god to give him a walker what about a van we're going to be out around us very fast right. now where you surf and he's rather head higher but the work for these technicians is just beginning. over the next few days they will painstakingly mold the new leg braces and christie says for the boys devices that will change their lives. in the sushi years that this program has been operating in afghanistan they have made nearly 200000 artificial limbs and treated almost 180000 disabled patients. will be on our must see the only place they can get help is here at this red cross center but i haven't seen another place that provides this kind
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of research. nobody knows how my life changing this work is better than karimov. boy my daughter there made that claim i've had this leg for about 20 years i've never asked for a new one because i'm used to that. a patient surprised when you tell them that you have a prosthetic leg what him up when my legs are covered and nobody notices anything when i show them my leg that totally surprised by that they don't believe that was an artificial leg that they can walk normally my father mccormack them but then i showed him i tell them see my leg is artificial but i still come here and work on it. first came to the red cross as a 13 year old patient at the time kabul was engulfed in a deadly civil war she was shot in the leg 4 times while walking home from her
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grandmother's house as a 1000000. when i regained consciousness my leg felt very light i tried to feel it but i realized it had been cut off the sure there will be here and that's when a woman becomes disabled she becomes invisible people think she can't do anything while at the whatever it was hard for me to accept this situation. i couldn't accept that i could have killed myself on the whole she would. instead the red cross offered to train her as a physio therapist when she finished high school that was almost 25 years ago since then she has helped thousands of patients just like. them because i'm disabled myself i understand their situation and i mean whatever they're going through i've already been through it. really how.
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do you. make them. the same town has a policy of hiring people with some kind of disability just like their patients some of the staff have been crippled by in the says like polio many like career of victims of the country's relentless war. for as long as i can remember that has been fighting in afghanistan and it will never end. the day by day the number of our patients is growing it's because of the war landmines and suicide 'd attacks. 'd are not. even by afghanistan's grim standard the situation here is becoming increasingly deadly
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a record number of civilians were killed and injured in 2018 in attacks by the taliban isis and pro-government forces some of the most brutal violence has accrued right here in kabul. we've seen incidents like rockets and bombs on. we've seen a lot of these horrible incidents it's been hot but we've gotten used to it. through good old the taliban has allowed great cross to stay open. after they took power the taliban came to our center they visit at the male and female. they were satisfied with our work and we carried on with our problems. but in afghanistan nothing is guaranteed. days into our visit we
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hear about a disturbing development the taliban have just announced their spring offensive against the afghan government and the military so what this means is that we're likely to see a lot more attacks but they're also saying here that the red cross will no longer be protected this is a really serious problem for the star and the patients at the center. it's not long before the news spreads are going for the world of those who crossed over into the murray river that is. in the women's department crema is also briefing they get you michel almost and i would turn if. i give them freedom. on anything but the. closer they know that the memories are that the divine will never hold among. you guys worried at all about your safety and i wish him all the journey all of us to live your life not
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a moment or. a humbling but it might call quickly that it was. one of the shots that. one of the stars he is seaman faced i'm struggling to understand why the taliban would ban the work of a humanitarian organization especially one that helps disabled afghans. it's too risky for us to ask the taliban in person so we called a spokesman you recently revoke the security guarantees for the red cross why did the taliban decide to do that. says the red cross has failed to deliver the medicine and services it had promised the red cross says they can't respond because they're still negotiating with the taliban. what we do know is that the organization supports clinics across
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afghanistan in areas where it's difficult to access any of the health care most of the people that work at the red cross and certainly all of the patients are afghans including members of the taliban and your families are you hurting your own people by taking this step. but just weeks after this phone call the taliban did attack an american aid organization in kabul killing at least 5 people all of them afghans. back at the red cross there's no sign of things flowing down the need is simply too great afghanistan has one of the highest rates of disability in the world in
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2018 a record 12000 people sought help from the several rehabilitation centers across the country. people like isra and you say if you can't afford private treatment. yourself on top of egypt i had to do with. the one person account of that. network was ok. it's a big day for the boys they're about to try on the new devices for the 1st time. they pretty excited and they're not the only ones. this little boy has just been given his view like you could hardly wait to users.
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it's not long before the technician arrives with its rest prosthetic issue enough to be. connected to the same name out of the book the other day about. even now he can't help but tease his nephew giving the family a month. but it's not all fun and games physiotherapists shook realize iraq wants is struck that this is just the food stamp. flick mill quietly push your now kids thought i may have turned over that on they've got all your meter jon i had a shocker more harm in him nearly as much as a kid mel brought afghanistan we couldn't. have been taught but on the thought of going to beat him it's not only the rehabilitation of a missing limb we have to support him psychologically we have to change his mind. just accept it has to be really for the future she has treated thousands of
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patients like is struck he tells him the secret to his recovery is his mind why he should work beautifully could knock her off and i mean to me to me for making as much of a robot because the. mom missed the quite accustomed. moment to her point out on what sort of wonderful medical money you make out of the beginning i'm a shock 0.0 point toward assist by human goodness quick more pointed at the meetings in the u.k. that this make. it try this one i'm with the boss pallone make it the middle to pull only the middle of the pit the hottest one is in the hospital for lack of any 24 cutting that this is his mo tooth it's a choice that sugar love faced himself he's ago when he was just 17 he stepped on a land mine my group was born to my face was born i left my leg. there
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was nothing to say if there was no flash to show on their board i lost my my hope ali thought i was not very violent to be too alive anymore because i was seeing very dark my future very dark he says the only thing that saved team was this job and the chance to help patients like is all that you make me quite peacefully want to get. off fighting. bus. when i came to the prophecy for a job completed my life change. i can be a man i can have my normal life i can be a normal person. give me a hope that i completely forget if i'm a disabled completely even the my family sometimes they forget him a disabled which i'm happy that because they should not come see them as a visible people they should. see the table. this resilience is what he's trying
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to pass on to instruct it to florida got a poison for her you didn't. pass. for trying to motivate a traumatized 6 year old is another matter of fact i'm for them i'm a bit. after not using his legs for 6 months yusuf is struggling to stand that alone 'd. karim is patient yourself as moment it will. land. at the bottom. but no mattia what use of says she keeps pushing him. he has to use his legs to make them strong again.
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ok that you. know off. i suppose. by size of a mobility. it's been a tough 1st day. getting used to this new reality isn't easy especially for. just a few months ago he was a confident teenager and a champion wrestler. but then his father died of cancer and a month later he lost his leg in the accident but. our life has changed a lot. we've become poor we've lost the head of our family. i used to go out with my friend in the moment i was the strongest amongst them. now i'm the weakest moments of life for them it makes me feel so bad he was one of the
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rugby. cricket i think about what i'll do in the future will i be a burden will i work as a laborer pushing a wheelbarrow. i can't even push a wheelbarrow. instead of worrying about school or his next wrestling match is ron now worries about his family. i want to work to feed my family all of them and i don't want to baghdad anyone for help he heard the song it's very difficult one i'm fed up with my life. is straw doesn't talk to his family about any of this instead he focuses on helping you so if it's called being i want a feeling of the of the other hand are going to be hard to. match up often in the
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political realm going to have them on the most to get public you know want to run again bush. is strong has brought his nephews and nieces to the park is a trees it's a welcome distraction for everyone it's of good ol buddy about yusef has changed a lot most of what he used to play with all the kids but he thought anymore he's become quiet and he cries a lot. he asks me why can't i walk why can't you take me out. well you can learn that. they are divided by light money. that you would want to go out on. and would give the. use of is still young so his chances of a full recovery a good but isra says his own future is going to be very different to watch he'd imagine. the other day visit guy came up and sort of to learn are you
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a cripple. one as long clinician or i can get my old life back but you know all started you know like. i'll continue my education and get a job that's a. day off today i watch a truck come to the orthopedic center and practice house for war. it's a slow painful process used to get him that i have seen that he doesn't hold well and doesn't immediately yes to make very short steps but the movement within western now we can learn is by the mouth for a very little about you know just. alberto cairo is the italian physiotherapist who has run the center for 30 years he and should work hand in hand to make sure the days on the right path. resemble your blanket with him.
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but no matter how difficult it is there are others here who are much worse off than is struck. he says seeing big progress and spies here to work harder. next door you surf is also struggling with never. let us out and. yes what i want. but after almost a week of practice both the boys are getting strong. and faster so. giving wrigley. gimmickry. if you. find the day has come when they can take the new prosthetic and leg braces home possible use of them also make a name of. a hot army gather they get that one back after him. but he acts out.
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yourself and knows maybe. some of that we see. there's any hole boy your dog an eagle followed the 1st the one of. these how maybe even one well that's what they said. that was with the most. but it was a good one. is also getting some passing advice from me that is when they get the. boy i did i wanted to look at more. wants to join the center's wheelchair basketball team and apply for the red cross' education program it's not only the mark of slowly working with him i feel that i am helping the people is like me i hope this cleared for 5 people. at least one of them the life
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to be. like that in the future so that is why they stayed longer with atheists here in my life i love which are. across town istra and use of family is waiting for them everyone is curious about the prosthesis. or he lost. to me. for the. use of is also thrilled with his prices although not for the reason you'd imagine. he was one of the lads. who. want to see these cousins play and tease each other you'd never guess how much they've been through. pain and the death of
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