a desperate for help and i was in other hospitals, but it didn't help me. i'm here because i need help for my hands and those but very few children get the chance for surgery abroad. ah, ah, abdul and his father are excited. the german aid organization, clayton's doff international, has come to cobble to enable several children to receive medical treatment in germany. this is the 1st meeting. it has been over a year since extremists bombed the mosque in abdul's home town of jalap, at his hands could not be saved. it is almost blind in his left eye. the wounds have still not hailed. we have changed abdul's name for his safety when they were actually brought to let somebody know that before. sure. oh good. well, to cut out the day for years, claudia pamela has been flying to afghanistan for the aid organization. she and her team carefully examine all the children and decide who may be eligible for treatment. what is the social worker notes that the situation in the country has deteriorated dramatically since the taliban took power last summer? but we have never before seen so many families come here. 5000000 convent if that they were over 2200 families here. or it's pretty hot to say you can come now kind of and you later, not knowing of the child will still be live and 6 months on it. so this is the task indian, him highly af, late, not the afghan economy has completely collapsed. millions are starving, qualified doctors and most 8 organizations have left the country. you haven't schwab, i like we have seen badly injured children who would be in intensive care and jermel and it just lying at home without painkillers or dressings for buttons, mega and facto how the lead and after a short consultation they decide abdul can come. he's lucky, but come with us that we shall items or is it the visa? yeah, the most affordable shall enter the missouri rules. i will be very happy if my son can get back his hands and treatment for his wound or some to her by her with them that over to us. and i will be very happy if he comes back healthy. he'll column when his he'll get after. but already i want him to be able to hold a pen or book with his hands and the koran. any money that was issued that he was hurt because some one hid explosives under his corolla, lucia was, i will go to to book you. i want him to have an islamic education when he returns was and serve his country with his mom to get ahold of you about the clara claudia pat. mueller and her colleague from the red crescent, are still arranging the passport. without them and the taliban permission, the children can't leave the country. but everything goes smoothly. as it italian, but taliban all men who belong to it are now involved in every thing. men in our experience has been very positive. yeah. hadn't absolute poor the t. therefore we were amazed that they even asked for help from here from the beaten water. a few months later, abdul and other badly injured children from crisis and war torn regions around the world. a staying in the threatens doff international in germany. it's an emergency community where they can recover at leisure from their operations. oh, time for another wound jack. medical assistant, isabel book shake has been tending abdul since his arrival. i saw him when he came to us a few months ago. there was still a wound here in his chest. no. we pulled out several small encapsulated metal pieces in chrome after they were removed the wound coast quite well, they won't get up to the gun. abdulla is due for another operation soon, gets not not thought to on. and the surgery should enable abdullah to grasp again as i like it. i'm not scared of the operation yet. i'm glad they're operating. i'm not scared at all. as thursday i bill spends the time until his operation playing with his new friends in the threatened off young patients from around the world become a temporary team fitness quote, i think it's great that the kid show me every day. how life is worth living. did they teach you to seize the day to live, to data or abdul, as really the best example? death of best the bicycle he has experienced the worst that can happen to a person. it has he and still comes up to you with a smile and a hug. i love mom. obviously 23 weeks later abdul surgery has finally been genuine. this hospital, in essence, in western germany, specializes in this type of surgery surgeon fritchie of holman wants to see how abdul has come through it. abil even speak to little german. no. how are you feeling? good? oh good. does it hurt little a little. okay. can you raise your arm? we bandaged it to day under anesthesia. udo, everything looks quite good. i'm pleased. we'll have to do that once or twice more, and then we'll take the bandage off and you will have to stop moving. okay. so you can grasp things and move them. we're only allowed, we've separated the owner and the radius. so it's no longer a single stump. but like pincers horton, this one i know from patricia sheila with these pincers he can grass yellow, kind of, i forgot. right? a bit, don't sure. even hold a spoon. oh. so he can get by without prosthesis which is the whole point form for photo in afghanistan. prostheses a quite difficult to gadgets, and i have to be changed often or fear of except the doctor's operated on only one arm, so the other remains as long as possible and serves as a support. now abdul as to rest i gotta ask my love to look for a few weeks later there is no more talk of resting back in the fleet and of abdul is busy training his new hand to use cutlery. for example, he's been given a custom made fork and spoon may yet be good. can you put it on yourself? yes. it again was a pinching anyway here. oh hear ya got no. yeah. yeah, here to. yep. yeah. go. yeah. then let's have you eat this, pretend means what i said. yeah. yeah. now right now be the 1st advice oh, getting on before. can you bring it to your mouse birthday. hm. good. oh okay. with good m classes. can you take this big piece or get mad about acoya and it's great. i can eat and do everything with it, dead for them. and then just let them know also wants to draw and right again like the other children he most likes to draw these favorite flower arose with him. does itself ganske. and this is also very, very important to encourage the children and say it, even if it doesn't look like a normal hand, it's great that you can use that to eat and write a full. he can go back to school with jacqueline, offered at the surely been time to go home, put on your jackets, check under your seat or not wilmont, but needing that. everyone is excited about going home and not a black man. i went to see my parents and family again and go back to school. that's one of them. and then the children say good bye to that temporary caregivers . many where sunglasses. they think it's cool. ah . once i learned that i had a great time here because i found new friends to play with such a quick group photo as a memento before abdul and the other children bold than flights home after a 10 hour flight, the children have landed safely in novels i hear the red crescent helps to organize their return soon the children will see their parents again. they've had no contact all this time so that they wouldn't get to homesick. abdul and his father hug among a horse. and what our did o'shaughnessy to that of these 7 months were like 7 years for ash joel gallow it. but now my son is back and i couldn't be happier did with i wanted to cry. but i stop myself because i did not want abdul to cries on. mcglochan went to me to ask ellen jody abdul's father wants to see everything bright away. look up his asthma medicine senior all the wounds on your chest healed now good. so yes, it's all better now it's all gone. did i have no wounds any more? settle our lives up meal when he laughed, he was hot and in terrible pain wash, la jolla. there. now he is better and healthy, much better luck, nor will it go down with unhappy to see him like this. so don't cuz i live like a dog. and so much better now. so much i couldn't do anything at 1st, but i much better all sanders bowling. abdul wants to stay in contact with the latest off the next time claudia, pet miller is in cobble to select children. he is determined to stop by he wants to become a doctor. to be able to help others, as others have helped him better. india the transition to green energy. a world without lithium, ion battery, with unimaginable but good concept for recycling and reusing par, locking to indian start up and their ideas for used energy storage. ego. on the d. w. in good shape, having children easy as pie or is it when the wish were a baby remains unfulfilled? how can women and men increase their fertility? and when things finally do work out, how do expected mothers get for pregnancy? 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