When he started his rehabilitation Mohamad couldn’t leave his bed; two and a half months later he was able to walk using a pair of crutches. | © Sarah Pierre / Handicap International
When he started his rehabilitation Mohamad couldn’t leave his bed; two and a half months later he was able to walk using a pair of crutches. | © Sarah Pierre / Handicap International
"Binan came and said to me 'stand up'. I asked how. 'Just stand up. You can do it', and I did."
Mohamad didn’t hear the missile coming, he just felt himself being lifted up in the air. After ten days in hospital his severely fractured leg was amputated. On arrival the diagnosis was even worse. When the doctor first saw the severity of Mohamad’s injury and how much blood he was losing, he was told he would probably die. Mohamad knew that wasn’t an option, he had to survive for his son.
With the help of Binan, one of our local physiotherapists in Lebanon, the impossible is becoming the possible.
Assagid Ag Mohamed was forced to flee his home with his family. He now lives in a camp for displaced people near Gao, where he is finding support and rebuilding his life as he waits to return home.
While thousands of disaster victims are being sheltered in improvised shelters and camps, Humanity & Inclusion's mobile teams are responding to the most urgent needs and supporting the most vulnerable.
One of Humanity & Inclusion's partners in Myanmar is an ambulance organisation that has been mobilised since the first hours after the earthquake in Mandalay. A week on from the disaster, they recount their experience.
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