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Current Feed ContentSIERRA LEONE: Salimatu Thoronka, “I have given birth to four children since losing my legs”Salimatu Thoronka had both her legs cut off by rebels in 1999 when she was 19 years old. She is now training to become a seamstress in Makeni in a programme for handicapped women, supported by the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation. This is her story. “My father died because of me. In 1999 the rebels advanced to Makeni so he fled with me and my brother to the safety of Freetown. But the rebels quickly advanced to Freetown also, so my father decided we would be safer back in Makeni. “We were stopped... |
