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Sports champion provides artificial limbs near Aleppo

In the thick of the Syrian war, an athlete channels his skills to help amputees receive prosthetics.
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Many Syrians who have lived through the six years of the Syrian civil war have been forced to change their work, study or specialty fields as they have been displaced from their hometowns.

Some young Syrians have been highly innovative and displayed excellence in their new fields. One young man, a sports coach, put his knowledge of the human body to use in an entirely new way for him. Ghazal Hilal from Tal Rifaat, north of Aleppo, now makes and fits artificial limbs for victims of the aerial and ground bombardments of Syrian and Russian forces.‎ 

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