One cry can change other lives as happens to a sculptor, Ali. Saga. His decision has helped a number of leprosy patients.
"A woman told me that doctor amputated her leg because of leprosy disease. She was poor. She could not afford to buy prosthetic foot," Ali said. The hospital sent her to her house. Ali, the former patient of leprosy, could not bear to see her.
"I still remember that she cried every single night," he said. Her cry inspired him. The sculptor decided to make a prosthetic foot.
Ali, born in 1968, was once affected by leprosy only months after he was able to walk. His parents did not know that their toddler suffered the disease.
His childhood was not very happy. He had to move from one school to another because his friends bullied him. "I moved from one school to another for five times. My mother forced me not to tell others about my disease," he said.
When he was 11 year old, he decided to go to a doctor. The doctor treated him until he was cured from the disease in 1988. Unfortunately, leprosy caused his hand and his face become numb. But, he refuses to despair. "We have God, our creator. God always be with us," he said.
His past experience and the woman influenced him to open a business of prosthetic foot. He used fiber to make the artificial foot. In a month, he can make 30 artificial foot.
His work is not only for business. He wants to help poor leprosy sufferers to be able to walk. Sometimes he gives free prosthetic foot for those who need.
