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Woman with disability benefited from emergency aid after earthquake in Indonesia

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Misbah Teleumbanua (right) visits with Dr. Ester Oksianita in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors. Oksianita serves on the staff of the clinic, which has evolved over the years from a specialty center for people with disabilities into a clinic serving the entire population.

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Paul Jeffrey
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Tsunami recovery +10, Indonesia
Misbah Teleumbanua (right) visits with Dr. Ester Oksianita in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors. Oksianita serves on the staff of the clinic, which has evolved over the years from a specialty center for people with disabilities into a clinic serving the entire population.