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Damba Koroma and Bintu Amara braid the hair of Kathy Mirones (Dr. Mirones cousin who assisted at Arimed) while at an appointment for their new prosthetic limbs at Arimed in Brooklyn.

Memunatu Mansaray dresses as a butterfly on a holiday visit to the home of Janet Sidique in Maryland.

Four-year-old Mohamed Conteh lost his leg in a rebel bombing. He remembers when his father died so violently, even though he was only two. When he arrived his face wore a bitter and angry look. He smiled at no one. He sits in a church at Camp St.…

Memuna Mansaray sits on the lap of former president Bill Clinton and puts a bracelet from the arm of Senator Hillary Clinton on his arm at a fundraiser celebrity picnic for the Gift of Limbs program at Camp St. Edwards. It was a long journey from the…

Bintu Amara plays mean game of hopscotch while staying with her host family in Alexandria VA when the group first arrived in the US. The children adapted to their hardships with a great sense of spirit intact.

Tommy Foday had both his arms cut by rebels because it was known he worked as a government driver to support his two wives and six children. A proud man, he now needs help to bathe and cannot even wipe away his own tears. Muctarr Jalloh, who has only…

A child looks curiously at the missing limb of four-year-old Memunatu Mansaray during a Rotary Club fundraiser picnic on Staten Island NY. Memuna lost her arm when rebels shot through her, killing her grandmother and fatally wounding her mother as…

Mariama Conteh rests in her room where she was hospitalized with osteomylitis at Staten Island University Hospital, which donated care for the amputees. Rebels in Sierra Leone cut off her arm and unsuccessfully wielded the machete on the other hand…

Muctarr Jalloh, a university student, said the rebels in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war cut his right arm so he could no longer write properly. They also sliced off his ear.

Women weep as they hear testimony from Muctarr Jalloh at the United Nations in New York. He spoke of rebel atrocities he and the others endured. The rebels systematically amputated limbs in an attempt to subdue and intimidate.