As war continues to cripple Afghanistan, health workers are restoring the limbs, and lives, of their patients.
Almost 180,000 patients, nearly 200,000 artificial limbs: For 30 years, orthopaedic centres run by the International Committee of the Red Cross have provided a lifeline for Afghanistan's physically disabled -victims of air raids, accidents, and congenital illness.
No matter how many limbs they make, the patients keep coming.
In Afghanistan, disability often carries a heavy stigma. But when patients come to the Red Cross centre in Kabul, they get more than just a new prosthetic limb; they get a hefty dose of hope.
Many of the staff treating them are former patients, who provide powerful examples that disability does not have to mean the end of life as they know it.
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