Jaipur Foot Clinic

artificial limbs are custom-made here and no one (99+% of the patients are below India's poverty line) is turned away (those who crawl in are fed and given money for a new start). Polio and diabetes (resulting in amputation) are disturbingly common in India. 72,000 patients were fitted in 2006 and 2007.

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India

February 13th 2008
This trip started in the south visiting cousin David and from there I flew to Delhi and toured the "Golden Triangle" section of India, and ended in Varanasi along the Ganges. Travel journal: ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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