Lending a hand — Afghan girl enabled to paint prettier pictures
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Shah Bibi Tarakhail loves to paint.
But less than a year ago, the six-year-old Afghan girl picked up a grenade following a fight between US forces and Taliban back in her village in Afghanistan (near the Pakistan border). Shah Bibi Tarakhail lost her right arm and an eye.
In the pictures below, Shah Bibi is seen with the prosthetic hand US doctors have fitted her with, enabling her to pick up a brush and paint herself a new life. The group that sponsored her visit to the United States says that back in home, though, the girl's new-found celebrity status has earned her death threats from the Taliban.
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Jun 22, 2014 05:46am
I salute to US doctors who are working for a noble cause,dedicated to ease human sufferings,and a hope for tomorrow.
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Jun 25, 2014 01:54pm
She restored my faith in humanity. She gives a cynic like me a reason to have faith in mankind.
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