Today's story comes from Matt, who wrote this story to support the organization Bolivian's Without Disabilities.

"In 2006 I quit what had become a meaningless 20-year career as a software engineer and decided to travel around the world for six months. I hoped to find a new viewpoint on life to help me decide what might be "next" for me. Four years later I was still traveling and I had been to 50 countries. Then, a few months after I crossed the frontier into Bolivia, I met a 10-year-old amputee from a poor family, and my life changed.

I had been planning to stay in Bolivia for only two weeks, but I was quickly fascinated by the country and decided to settle down for a while to learn Spanish. I also started doing volunteer work at one of the government-run hospitals for those with disabilities. My primary job was to help in the prosthetic department to assist with the fabrication of prosthetic limbs. It was there that I met Ismael. Ismael was a young boy who had lost one arm, one leg, and his toes, all of which had been severed in a tragic and unnecessary encounter with a train. Ismael was only three years old at the time of his accident.

On the day that I replaced his crudely simplist wooden prosthetic foot with one donated to me from the US, he cried as he told me of his dream to be able to do what the other kids could do. And I cried with him.

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