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New lease of life as girl, 13, takes first steps with prosthetic limbs

Limb Kind physical therapist Meghan McCullough with Britney Rabongo a bilateral amputee at the Cure Children’s Hospital orthopaedic lab Kijabe. [George Njunge, Standard]

For all her life, Britney Rabongo has been confined to a wheelchair since she was born with a club foot.

Attempts to reconstruct the legs through surgery failed, reducing her life to one of dependency.

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