Syrian girl born without legs walks on new prosthetics

Syrian 8-year-old girl, Maya Merhi had to struggle around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin cans.

Be that as it may, now the young lady, who was born without no legs because of congenital condition, is walking on new prosthetics after undergoing treatment in Turkey.

Photos of her plight, including those taken by AFP in Syria, were seen the world over in June, and she was taken to Istanbul for the extraordinary technique.

Wearing a pink sweater and coordinating shoes, Maya on Saturday was capable out of the blue to walk along the rutted streets of the Serjilla camp after arriving back.

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At last she participated in the games and dancing with the other youngsters. 

Her dad Mohammed, said, "I was so cheerful when I saw her walking." 

"The entire family and all our friends and family were so happy."

Her Father Mohammed also suffers the same condition, known as congenital amputation which means the person is born without lower limbs. He cobbled together the custom made prosthetics on which she used to rearrange around the camp.

Initially from Aleppo area, the dad and little girl needed to move to rebel-held Idlib province as fighting from Syria's civil war began to rage around their home.

After the photos of Maya'sdifficulties sparked attention acros the world, the Turkish Red Crescent interceded.

The dad and girl wereevacuated from Syria by the Turkish authorities and brought to Istanbul for treatment at a specialised clinic.

Mohammed got prosthetic appendages also, however concedes that he isn't yet as consistent on them as his girl. Sitting on a froth sleeping pad, his little girl unwraps the artificial legs and attaches them.

"In the first place, there were challenges becoming used to them," says her uncle Hussein, who went with brother and niece to Turkey.

"All of a sudden she found herself up high on the new prosthetics."