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Why are we so involved? - A handicap isn't just a handicap

Everyone can live with a handicap, but the worst kind of handicap is that from fellow human beings or the society and environment in which the person lives. With the unconditional love of his mother, and unswerving determination and his left foot, Christy Brown manages to break free of his handicap and encourage people with a special need for support all over the world not to give up. I heartily recommend his book "My Left Foot", and the film of the same name with Daniel Day Lewis. - Chika Uzor

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"Breathing under Water"

"Breathing under Water – the 2nd life of Dr. Nils Jent" is a documentary film: After an accident in 1980, Prof. Dr. Nils Jent (born 1962) has a speech defekt, is blind and bound to a wheelchair and can hardly move his arms. By sheer force of will he does his university entrance exams, studies economics with distinction and is today a professor for Diversity Management at the Swiss University of St.Gallen (source: material Swiss television). I thank him very much for releasing the English version of this film to me for our Chibugwu Center in Amokwe. - Chika Uzor

Rahma Haruna

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