00:00When I was born, I was born in Futsi, not in Futsi, but in Tumman.
00:14This was the very first day when I was born.
00:18Well, I know they feel fine, but I began to believe, they say, if life is there, we must
00:24meet up.
00:25The Cardinals say, yes, we must come.
00:28My father passed away in 2019.
00:33He was with me before my mother passed away.
00:37When my mother passed away, my father passed away.
00:40He went to work.
00:42So, now we are all with my mother.
00:44She is no longer with us.
00:46So, we are ready to go now.
00:48She left to give me food.
00:52The school where I was born,
00:55the first school I went to,
00:58a company ran away from me.
01:00So, they didn't let me go to school again.
01:03I went there, I sent the other school back, and it was the same thing.
01:07So, even when I went back to Connauts,
01:09they told me,
01:11well, the doctor won't let you go, but he will send you back.
01:14Don't wait until the Master Chief comes.
01:16So, they made me come.
01:18So, I have been with them for six years.
01:21They are no longer with me now.
01:25I think Fudja's life has been tough.
01:28Fudja has a challenging family situation,
01:32in which she has lost her parents,
01:34and she is raised by other family members.
01:38So, for a part,
01:40she might have been grieving for the loss of her parents,
01:43and maybe grieving for the fact that she lost her father.
01:46So, for a part,
01:48she might have been grieving for the loss of her parents,
01:51and maybe grieving for the fact that she lost her father.
01:54And maybe grieving for the fact that she was not a normal child.
01:59She was not a happy child that you are supposed to be for her age.
02:02And sometimes, even children with the same deformity as her,
02:06you can still see some joy in their eyes.
02:08And I felt with Fudja,
02:10that for her, life has really been a struggle up to this point.
02:14Fudja's legs are so deformed,
02:17that her ability to walk is really limited.
02:20Her feet really point inside, 90 degrees.
02:26That limits the amount that she can walk.
02:30She's always limiting the activities that she does with other people,
02:34because she's ashamed.
02:36Not only she cannot walk,
02:38but she socially is not interacting like other children.
02:42So, hopefully, by making her legs straighter,
02:45putting her feet pointing forward,
02:48she will also open her social skills and her heart.
02:54So, it's a big surgery.
02:58She's going to be under general anesthetic for many hours,
03:02and she's going to have long leg casts for many weeks.
03:07So, it'll be a long process.
03:10It's a big commitment from her side as well,
03:13to rehabilitate and learn to walk again,
03:17with your feet pointing in the right direction.
03:23There's something about her.
03:25When she experiences some things,
03:27you can really say, wow, this girl had to fight for her life.
03:33Well, after almost four weeks of being in the bed and being in the chair,
03:40Fudja, today, can do her first steps with the walker.
03:44We are all very excited, we're all Fudja fans!
03:59It's beautiful.
04:00It's a blessing to be able to see a life change so much
04:03from a child that has had pain in her eyes,
04:06not even when she had physical pain,
04:08she just sometimes had pain in her eyes because she went through stuff.
04:12And then now, to see her and to come up to her,
04:15and you hear her little giggles and the joy in her eyes,
04:18it's been everything.
04:23This girl, she's got energy, she's got life,
04:25she's got determination.
04:27She's proved herself with resilience time and time again.
04:31You could say Fudja's name on the ship,
04:34and almost everybody would know who you're talking about.
04:36And that's a testament to how she brought people together
04:41and how she smiled.
04:43Yeah, it's those changes that are the most tangible.
04:46I mean, you can look at a picture
04:48and see these beautiful straight legs,
04:50but for me, what stands out is her affect in her face.
04:55She was carrying a lot before,
04:57and you can see she's light, she's free.
05:00And I think she's going places.
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