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Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sumi, 12 years old at home. Sumi lives in the slums by the railway tracks in Tejgaon. When she was 18 months old a train hit her and cut off both her legs. She lives in a tiny shack with her brothers and sisters and grand mother. Her mother left shortly after the accident and her father has since married twice. CSID has provided her with a wheel chair and financial help for her to go to main stream school near by. She goes as often as she can, if there are no one to help her across the tracks in her wheel chair she cant go. At home and around the slum she moves by jumping along on her bum. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sumi, 12 years old at home. Sumi lives in the slums by the railway tracks in Tejgaon. When she was 18 months old a train hit her and cut off both her legs. She lives in a tiny shack with her brothers and sisters and grand mother. Her mother left shortly after the accident and her father has since married twice. CSID has provided her with a wheel chair and financial help for her to go to main stream school near by. She goes as often as she can, if there are no one to help her across the tracks in her wheel chair she cant go. At home and around the slum she moves by jumping along on her bum. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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