Sierra Leone: Amputees gain confidence
Operation Rise, run by an American organization called The Peace Project, handed out crutches on Sept. 21, 2011, to landmine victims, polio sufferers and amputees from the brutal decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone. A boy carries some new crutches at one of the Operation Rise distribution centers in Aberdeen, Freetown.
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