19-year-old Rama Haruna from the Nigerian city of Cana suffers from a strange pathology: her body practically does not grow. It is the size of a six-month-old baby, and undeveloped limbs are unable to function. Nevertheless, this nightmare tragedy did not deprive Rama of optimism: she is a cheerful and cheerful girl who dreams of a happy future.
Like any teenager, Rama Naruna loves to have fun and dream about how one day she will open her own shop. These dreams are not at all hindered by the fact that Rama has neither arms nor legs since birth, she experiences constant pain in her undeveloped body, like a baby's, and spends most of her time in a plastic basin - after all, even a standard wheelchair is not for her fits.
Rama's mother, Fadi, says that up to six months her daughter was a perfectly healthy baby and had already started to sit. But she never learned to crawl - the development of the girl sharply slowed down. It all started with bouts of fever, then Rama started to have a stomach ache, she was constantly screaming in pain. Until now, pain constantly torments her. Since then, her body has not grown, and the size has remained the same as that of a six-month-old baby. She has an underdeveloped right hand, but the girl cannot act for her.
Rama's family is doing everything to brighten her life. Some of them are constantly with her. “They help me a lot, they do everything so that I don't need anything,” she says. Meanwhile, until recently, the girl did not even have a stroller, and her family had to carry it everywhere in a plastic basin.
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Especially close to Rama is the ten-year-old brother Fahad, who simply adores his sister. “I help her in everything,” says Fahad. “It's my duty to bathe her. I also walk with her every day. I am very happy when other people help her. I also like to visit relatives - Rama is just happy when we go to them."
Rahma's family tried very hard to find out what caused her strange illness and find a way to help her, but they never succeeded. “I've been trying for fifteen years to find a way to cure her,” says Rama's father, Husseini. “I grow vegetables, sell at the market, do everything to pay for her care. I sold everything I had. Only God knows how much money it took me."
Rama Naruna's case has left Nigerian doctors at a loss. They have no idea what happened to the girl at the age of six months. Some local doctors even told her parents that Rama was struck by the curse of the genie.
Now, Rama's relatives hope to attract the attention of doctors and charities to her, which could help her at least cope with the pains from which the girl suffers every day. After the local press spoke about the girl, she already received several charitable donations, the most generous of which was a wheelchair, which significantly changed Rama's life.
“Once I went with Rama to a supermarket,” says Fadi, “and there we met a man who bought her a stroller, and took some more pictures of it and gave it to the local newspaper. Since then people have been helping us."
Despite everything, the brave girl believes in her lucky star. “I thank God for everything that happens to me,” she says. - And I dream of opening a grocery store one day, where everything people need would be. This is what I want from life."