Despite her physical limitations, Ubah Kahiye presses on, taking advantage of everything the country has to offer. When Ubah Kahiye was 9 years old, a battle tank launched a bomb at her home in Mogadishu, Somalia, and decimated it. Ten people died. Kahiye survived, but became paralyzed from the waist down. The explosion was only the beginning of her long journey from home to a refugee camp in Kenya, and all the way to Rhode Island.
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