A quarter of all child deaths globally occur in India and 75% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. These problems extend to, and are often worse for, India’s often-marginalised disabled and amputee community. It is estimated that there are 70 million disabled people living in India. One of them is Shivani, who […]

Jerome was one of the first beneficiaries to receive surgery in ELoH’s Liberia project. He was only a year old when he had his leg amputated, during the Liberia Civil War. Jerome was standing outside his house with his father when a hunter came back from the field and tried to unload a shotgun. It misfired […]

Noah is ELoH’s youngest beneficiary in Liberia. Earlier this year we met him together with his mum Grace. Excited to have visitors, Noah rushed past his mum and led us down the narrow alleys between the huts and houses to his home, saying “Hi” to neighbours and friends as he whizzed past. It was a […]

During a recent visit to Liberia, we caught up with 13-year-old Jacob. He runs up to greet us in the yard of his school. Until you look closely, you can’t tell that his right leg is a prosthesis. Jacob lost his leg during the Liberian Civil War, when he was only a month old. Until January […]

There are some cases that leave a stronger mark than others and six-year-old Valentine’s is one of them. Valentine was born in India with no arms or legs. When he was only 15 days old he was thrown on a rubbish heap, probably by his parents who could not envisage a future for a child […]

Lucee is nine years old and lives in a little house on a steep hill a few miles outside of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, with her two siblings and her mother. Lucee is an upper arm amputee and has been part of the ELoH child amputee project in Sierra Leone for the past […]