THE JOURNEY OF MAYA
(Clockwise from top left) Maya Mohammad Ali Merhi, 8, who was born with no legs due to a congenital condition, walking using prosthetic legs made of plastic tubes and tin cans by her father at a refugee camp in
Idlib, Syria. But after pictures of Maya and her father, who is also born without legs, were seen around the world recently, she was taken to Istanbul, Turkey, for treatment. And her life is about to change for the better. ‘Maya will walk,’ said Dr
Mehmet Zeki Culcu, the doctor treating her at an Istanbul hospital.