Niral is six years old and lives in Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh. His family is very poor and his father earns less than £3 a day from agriculture. Their living conditions are cramped, sharing a single room between the five family members. When he was only 10 months old, a tumor was discovered at the back of his […]

Vivaan lives in Nunna village, India, with his grandparents, who are very poor (earning around £5 a day). When Vivaan was seven years old he was playing beside a road and was hit by a lorry. After his leg was amputated he relied heavily on his grandmother to assist him in the most basic daily […]

Tilak lost his leg when he was just four years old in a lorry accident while he was playing. He received poor treatment from the local hospital and his leg became infected. His leg had to be amputated as a result. As he grew up Tilak struggled with the lack of mobility and missed out […]

Two and a half years ago, Kareem went to the pharmacy to get some medicine for his father. As he came out from the shop, a lorry showed up and ran him over. The accident was so severe that his right leg needed to be amputated. Sadly, road accidents are common in India and many […]

Amita lives in Andhra Pradesh, India and was born without a left leg. She faced a lot of challenges as she grew up – being reliant on her family to go anywhere. Her father is the family’s only breadwinner and he earns £50-70 per month – a fifth of the costs of a good quality prosthetic […]

  Deepika, from Andhra Pradesh, was born without a left leg and faced a lot of challenges during her early childhood. She needed assistance to walk and found it difficult to keep up with other children. Deepika’s parents are poor and could not afford to pay for the prostehtic leg she needed to walk. In India there […]