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Beyond Legs and Arms For Afghanistan: Disability A Resource Not A Liability

Published: Sept. 25, 2012, 11:41 a.m.

b'LONDON\\u2014A man with no legs and only one arm and a boy crippled by polio have been instrumental in steering a Red Cross team\\u2019s work in Afghanistan. The ICRC\\u2019s head of Orthopaedics in Kabul, Alberto Cairo, was invited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to talk about his experience of 22 years\\u2019 work with disabled and war-wounded people. Together with Carl Blanchet of the London School\\u2019s International Centre for Evidence on Disability he explained to Peter Goodwin why we should see disabled people as a resource, not a liability.'