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Four year old Terra (not her real name) is learning to stand upright for the first time in her life and has begun taking her first cautious steps on two prosthetic limbs made at CCBRT's (Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania) orthopaedic workshop. Terra had severe malaria when she was two months old. Her father, Boniface, a farmer from Mwanza, says that after the treatment for malaria, Terra developed gangrene in both legs and, in order to save her life from the infection, the local hospital had to amputate.