Sri Lanka
Making wheelchairs from bicycle parts

Nalukah Jayah, whose family lives in a shack in Colombo, was three 
when she was paralyzed by polio.  
    At sixteen, she received her first wheelchair from the bicycle project, 
and went to her first day of school. 
Twenty-five million people around the world cannot use their legs, 
and have no access to wheels.

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To article  New Lives on Wheels  in This World,  S.F. Chronicle, October 14, 1990

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