Ruth Idowu
is a 19-year-old Nigerian girl who lost her right hand and part of her
left arm in a savage attack in her native country. Thanks to the
kindness of strangers — who have come to love her — she’s being fitted
at Johnson Orthopedic Appliances in Riverside with two artificial limbs, for free.
Ruth
is more than a survivor.
Few years ago, while cleaning tables in her parents’ restaurant in Oga
Odan, her hometown, a drug-crazed madman burst in and began stabbing
Ruth, hacking off parts of her arms. After an eight-month hospital stay,
she returned home, maimed and helpless.
She
learned to eat by scooping food with the stump of her left arm into the
crook of her right arm. She was forced to abandon plans to study
accounting and learn to drive. But Ruth had faith that Jesus would help
her. Her faith prevailed. Tunde and Friends Foundation, a nonprofit that supports disabled Nigerians, funded Ruth’s airfare to Southern California and living expenses here.
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