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it's a classic trade at the edge house a 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 him at a time. to says he used the red cross' old defeated center in afghanistan has been a lifeline for people with disabilities victims of a strike just accidents and congenital illness but no matter how many limbs they make the patients keep coming. 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 both a putin and physical rehabilitation center. hundreds of patients have come for treatment some have traveled for days risking landmines and taliban checkpoints to get sleep. inside physiotherapist karim cho is doing her best to calm the 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 the by him i now go 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 though all of us have a cargo whatever. it is the model of a bitch got in either the one other boss my mother a 10 others out the top of having a lock on. because i never look well 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. god never came out there

that are already there was i'm other than are we are these are mother these are what his legs are a mangled mess but she's more worried about the scars she can't see the child it's very sad because. father tyler they walk and they and i. but he's always that thing on the wheelchair. things maybe you know i walk. home. despite his injuries you surf 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 came when you know i was in a room. the driver tried to break but the car started flipping years over what you saw of was hit and went flying into the ditch i'm awkward to all of them

marches on doesn't look good and i was pulled below the car and my leg went under the wheels still only on the card around the pool. but the logical 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 separate but his worst fee is what feeds you so if i use a board i want to keep you so forcing the children's hospital from that he went into a coma for 6 days the exam there was only a 5 percent chance that he'd survive my. are you positive 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 3 acuminata . ever since there is trial hasn't taken his eyes off his nephew on.

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. you which he doesn't only got your cheek i got to be a watch until the arm under his arm on the ballot. recount band over and over and over. to. fit the recovery is going to be even tougher he needs a whole new press that he call a. brother moment the older brother or the other the not. the ability. or. how about a moment on her show her that i don't want women or much america to buy the come

out of. my father god to give him a walker what about a van we're going to be around us very fast right. now where you surf and it's rather head higher but the work of these technicians is just beginning. over the next few days they will painstakingly mold the new leg braces and priests thesis 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. where we are now mostly 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

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 why 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 foot in the form of them but then i show them 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

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 sugar will be here and that's when a woman becomes disabled she becomes invisible people think she can't do anything while at work 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. i only have.

to. 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 a 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 attacks. 'd are not. even by afghanistan's grim standard the situation here is becoming increasingly deadly

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 hard but we've gotten used to it. through good old the taliban has allowed the great cross to stay open. a month 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

hear about a disturbing development the taliban have just announced a spring offensive against the afghan government in 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 to be more 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 was going to. give them freedom sometimes on anything but the. closer they don't think that the divine. part of long. you know. you guys worried at all about your safety i mean i'm on the journey on the understanding. that

a moment or. the humbling that it might just call really well that it was. one of the shots that. one of the staff he has 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

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 slowing down the need is simply too great afghanistan has one of the highest rates of disability in the world in

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 of one of the. 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 new lick and he could hardly wait to users.

it's not long before the technician arrives with its rest prosthetic issue enough to be. connected to the name out of the for the another day but. even now he can't help but tease his nephew getting the family i want. but it's not all fun and games physiotherapists should be rock wants is struck that this is just the food stamp. to flick melt. your now kiss for the michelle turner for that only if that's all your meter john i mean a shocker more harm in a minute 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 him has to be ready for the future she has treated thousands of

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 from a kid as much as a robot because they don't mom must be quite accustomed. to her point out of what sort of wonderful music and money you make out of the beginning i am a shackle quantum a ploy tourist by humans would miss corke i'm opposed to the meetings in the yukon that this make. it nice one i'm pretty fast pallone make of the middle of point only the middle of the pit the hottest one is in the hospital for lack of any 20 for the testing that this in case. 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

was nothing to say if there was no flash new tissue on their blood 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 yet we want to get. off fighting it bust out a couple. of. when i came to the prophecy for a job completing my life change. i can be a man i come out of my normal life i can be a normal person. and they give me a hope that i can live to forget if i were disabled completely even the my family sometimes they forget i am a visible which i am happy of crap because they should not come see them as the visible people they should. see the table. this resilience is what he's trying

to pass on to instruct it to florida to have a poison pill for your. past. for trying to motivate a traumatized 6 year old is another matter of fact i'll call them i'm a bit. after not using his legs for 6 months yusuf is struggling to stand that alone or. kareem is patient yourself as mother graham. land. at the bottom. but no rational what use of says she keeps pushing him. he has to use his legs to make them strong again.

ok that you. know off. i suppose the course of the show by sizable middle of. 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 to go on 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

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 that. i can't even push a wheelbarrow. instead of worrying about school or his next wrestling match is from 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 we have the so it's very difficult one i'm fed up with my life. is stronger doesn't talk to his family about any of this instead he focuses on helping you so if. you don't want to be a majority of the of the other hand are going to be hard to imagine in

a political rally going to have among the most to get public you know want to run again. is strong has brought his nephews and nieces to the park is a trees it's a welcome distraction for every one of compounded about the usef has changed a lot most of what he used to play with older kids but he thought anymore he's become quiet and he cries a lot. he asked me why can't i walk why can't you take me out i would really learn. the hard to find more like me. that you would want to go out on and on and would give the. usaf is still young so his chances of a full recovery a good but israel says his own future is going to be very different to what he dimension. the other day this guy came up and sent us to learn are you

a cripple. the one as long clinician i can get my old life back but you'll all started your life. i'll continue my education and get a job that's a. day off today i watch a strike come to the will to pete accent and practice house a war. it's a slow painful process to get to me that i have seen or doesn't hold when it doesn't mean just looking yes to make very sure but more than what is now we've learned about for neighbor to before you know just. 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 the blanket were there.

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. never. said. yes look i want my grandfather. but after almost a week of practice both the boys are getting stronger and faster so this recession was very good. for them giving a great. gimmick to me here it is. finding the day has come when they can take the new prosthetic and leg braces home possible use of them. to hold out on me ever they get that when i could have to.

buy they accept. yourself it was maybe some of the. some of that we see that i'm a big case as any whole boycott nobody calls the one i gave us the one of. these how we did the money well that's what they said. that was with the most. but it was. basketball. is also getting some parting advice from should have been is when they get the modem want it on over to us you know that out of colombia one boy i did all that they got us to look at more cool market machine. wants to join the send his wheelchair basketball team and apply for the red cross is education program it's not only the mark of slowly working with i feel that i am helping the people is like me i help at least clear 4 or 5

people i've changed at least one of them their life to be. like that in the future so that is why they stayed longer with atheists here and i live my life which are. across town istra and use of family is waiting for them everyone is curious about the prosthesis. or he lost. it in the. usaf is also thrilled with his braces 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. poverty pain and the death of

a family member. the future is still very much on sir but now at least there's hope. stories of abuse in aged care homes in the west to shock the world but there's not a total one i want to this makes those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out their targets on al-jazeera.

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