Sidra, 12, whizzes around the mall in her new mechanically propelled wheelchair thrilled to be independent of her mother and sister as she shops for accessories. “This is a lot of fun,” she says excitedly when asked about the two-wheeled purchase she made a couple of months ago.
Her expression turns serious, “I was tired of everyone constantly pushing me around in my old [manual] wheelchair and I didn’t have the energy to push myself for very long.”
Sidra suffers from polio, a virus which has crippled hundreds of children in Pakistan.
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