Reference : V-P-AF-E-01977
Date : 2012
Country/Region : AFGHANISTAN
Caption : Kabul, ICRC orthopaedic centre. Disabled basketball. 19-year-old Niloufar (dressed in red in the foreground) is paralysed due to a gunshot wound. She is working at the center as administrator.
Photographer : DANZIGER, Nick
Confidentiality level : public
Publication restrictions : reserved users only
Copyright : DANZIGER, Nick
Description : RC RC magazine

Issue 1, 2013, p. 21

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But it is not just about physical and economic self-reliance. It’s helping people get back the power to live their lives — even with limitations. “I was so surprised when I reached the centre to see so many disabled people living normally,” says 19-year-old Niloufar, paralysed due to a gunshot wound. “Up to then, I was depressed,” she recalls. “I am now another person, not the Nilofar of before. I can do anything. I am strong, I am powerful.”
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Author: Nick Danziger
Original material : digital
Resolution : 4032x3024
Orientation : landscape
Colour/B&W : colour

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