A six-year-old girl is finally happy to go to school after life-changing surgery for her severely bowed legs. Sira's grew up in a rural community in south-west Senegal, and her legs started bowing when she was just four, due to malnutrition.
Her condition got worse, and eventually she didn't want to go to school due to unwanted attention from classmates. Sira would often come home from school crying, but her father Ibrahima insisted she kept going so she got the education he missed.
The farmer and shop owner said: "I knew if she had an education, then it wouldn’t matter what her legs were like. When you don’t have an education, you can’t get a good job. You can’t support yourself and your family.”
