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Arunima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and wants to open a free sports academy for poor and disabled people. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. [38] The academy would be named Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Vikalang Khel Academy. [39]
Masudur Rehman Baidya was born in 1968 at Ballabhpur, North 24 Parganas in West Bengal in a Bengali poor family. [2] His father was an imam of a local mosque. At the age of ten, young Masudur lost both his legs in a train mishap.
Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی; 28 February 1928 [6] – 8 July 2016) [1] [7] [2] [8] was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest ambulance network, [9] along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, [10] rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan.
Dar-ul-Sukun (Urdu: دارالسکون) (House of Peace) in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan is a home for physically and mentally disabled children and adults, both men and women in poverty or unable to address their challenges. [tone] It has three branches across Karachi. The branch at Kashmir Road cares for almost 150 people. The home has 53 staff ...
Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda (born 26 January 1988), also known as Girish N. Gowda is paralympic high jumper from India. He was born with a disability in the left leg. He represented India in the 2012 Summer Paralympic games held in London in the men's high jump F-42 category and won the silver medal in the finals with a jump of 1.74 meters using scissors technique. [1]
Mariyappan was born in Periavadagampatti village, Salem district, Tamil Nadu, one of six children (four brothers and a sister).His father reportedly abandoned the family early on and his mother, Saroja, raised her children as a single mother, carrying bricks as a labourer until becoming a vegetable seller, earning ₹ 100 (US$1.20) a day. [2]
Akbar Khan was born on 16 August 1962 [6] in a Muslim family to Kistoor Khan, a farmer and Rahmat Begum, a housewife, at Bangasar, located in the Indian state of Rajasthan with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life, and occurs in 2 to 3 per 100,000 newborns of the population. [7]
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