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Azeema is a victim of the medicine Thalidomide. Her hands and legs below the knees were not formed. Captain Robert Ing escorted her to Houston, Texas, where Azeema received high quality medical care and therapy that enaled her to walk, eat, go to school and take care of herself.

This care and therapy was not available in her home country (Pakistan). “The world looks so nice when you have legs. Can I keep these legs forever, please!" said Azeema when she tried on her artificial legs for the first time.

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Sajida a little girl from Pakistan was the 7th child born in a poor family. Her father struggled to provide daily necessities as a vegetable seller. Then one day a stroke of bad Luck struck the family and in a moment sajidas life changed forever.

While sajidas was traveling in a train with her moher and her 5 siblings, a bomb planted under the seats blew up. Sajidas mother, brothers and sisters died intantly. She was left with a severe burns and disfigurement all over her body and seemingly bleak future.

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Hamza Arif is a tragic victim of childhood polio, a disease completely eradicated in the United States and other developed countries due to their excellent vaccination programs. But since Hamza was born in a poor village in Pakistan he was not lucky enough to be vaccinated against such a crippling yet preventable childhood disease. The polio resulted in deformation of Hamza's leg bones and left him crippled for life.

The House of Charity came across Hamza completely by accident. The executive director of The House of Charity Mrs. Hashmat Effendi was visiting a flea market in Haripur, a small village located in the Northern Frontier Region of Pakistan. She noticed a little boy sitting in a small pakora vendors shack, he was sitting close to a frying pan full of hot oil.

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