Indian woman learns to walk again after 33 years

Charles had been teaching a 38 year old woman to walk again. She had polio when she was 5 and she just sat there and watched the village people go by every day. When he found out they had to take her out back and stand her up to go to the bathroom, he said that if she can stand, she can walk. So he cut down a 40 foot piece of bamboo and built a railing right up to where she sat every day. This was in a completely remote village in the high mountains of Karalla in southern India. A photographer was there for her debut for her mother who was 73 years old. He took these pictures. She wasn't actually walking but rather swinging her hips and pulling her legs around. Three months after Charles left the village, she walked off the end of the rails and walked several steps before returning. She now walks in the village. Each of us should go out into the world and do just one thing to make another person's life better. It isn't that hard. Charles Herrick left the high tech world to become a relief worker who had done work with lepers in the slums of Bombay and with landmine victims in Afghanistan. He helped resolve an epidemic in a remote village in Africa. He wrote about it in his book Breath of Kenya.

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