Ailing boy sees a ray of hope

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2010/01/27/stories/2010012752010300.htm)
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Ailing boy sees a ray of hope


Ch. Santakar


KORAPUT: Newspapers could also become effective learning tool for educating children. While many experts are still breaking their heads on finding suitable ways to keep students in touch with their learning, here is Kamalu Lochan Khora, a 14-year-old boy from Ginjiriguda of Manabar panchayat in Koraput block, who begins his morning by reading a newspaper, even though he was kept out of his textbooks for the last two years. A new friend was found in the form of a newspaper, he says. “I discovered the joy of reading newspaper when I was set to forget letters and words that were learnt two years ago,” he says.

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Kamalu had to stop going to school at Koraput when his legs and arms gradually started shrinking. Since then he had been struggling hard to come out of the serious deformation in his arms and legs. But things have changed for the better over the last few months especially after admitting him in the rehabilitation centre. The centre has come forward to support the family to a great extent. Being from BPL family, the centre charges only Rs.20 a day for the stay on its premises. The condition of Kamalu is improving and he is expected to stand on his own in a couple of months, Prema Kindo, senior physiotherapist at the centre, says. Later, he will be taken to Nirtar at Olotpur in Cuttack district for an operation .
While the operation will be carried out free of cost, the district administration had been approached for meeting the expenses towards the treatment while he was in the rehabilitation centre at Koraput. The centre takes a minimal treatment charge of Rs.100 for a period of every ten days.
“Once I walk, I will also be able to go to school,” Kamalu says.






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