Photos of the Cheshire Home in Ethiopia

Description of the Cheshire Home from 4/17/01 Motley Fool column, A Little Perspective:

"When was the last time you saw someone crippled by polio? Probably never, as an inexpensive vaccine has eliminated it in the developed world. But in Ethiopia, many awful diseases such as polio -- which strikes children and generally causes terrible deformities -- are still common. With few people able to afford wheelchairs, Ethiopia’s polio victims have to pull themselves along the ground in crablike fashion. When even healthy people struggle to survive, imagine how hard life must be for those crippled by polio.

"The Cheshire Home helps polio-stricken children walk again, albeit with special braces and crutches. It’s a long and painful process, usually involving multiple rounds of surgery in which doctors cut tendons in the children’s legs so they can be straightened. Between surgeries, the legs have to be in full-length casts so they don’t curl up again."

To make a donation to the Cheshire Home, please contact Whitney Tilson at Tilson@Tilsonfunds.com.

Click here to see pictures of the Fistula Hospital.

Dereje helping a boy ride a horse for the first time

Kebede is on the far right (and my mom is on the far left)

A traditional dance

My mom with some of the boys

Kebede helping a boy ride a horse