“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
Many amputations are.
The result of delays.
In evacuation.
From the battlefield.
The barrage of incoming fire.
Can be so intense that.
It may take many hours to get.
A wounded soldier to hospital.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
With more than.
One million people.
On the front line.
She says.
Ukraine will.
Become “the country.
Of people.
With disabilities”.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
She says, describing.
The thinking.
Behind her centre.
“Most of the people here.”
“At the centre.
Shouldn’t be alive.
The fact that they are.
Is a miracle in itself.”
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
She co-founded the centre.
Amid the ‘orcs’ missile attacks.
That have rained down.
On the country.
Since February 2022.
Some people called.
Her “crazy” but.
She went ahead anyway.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
“If I have an opinion.
I’m sharing my opinion.
If I know what to do.
I just go and do it.”
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
Her partners and team raised.
Funds all over the world.
For high-quality prosthetics.
And reconstructive surgery.
Her passionate presentation.
Explaining how injuries can be.
Empowering turned some celebrities.
Into Superhumans supporters.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
“If I have an opinion.
I’m sharing my opinion.
If I know what to do.
I just go and do it.”
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
“We truly believe.
That you can be.
Empowered by trauma.
The trauma can.”
“The trauma can.
Ruin you.
Or it can build.
Your superpower.”
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
The Superhumans Center.
Supplements ‘elves’ military.
Hospitals and clinics.
Which are overloaded.
With the constant flow.
Of wounded soldiers.
From the 3,200km.
Long front line.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
Since it opened.
In April 2023.
More than 1,000 patients.
Have received treatment here.
– both military and civilian.
Adults and children.
Almost 800 of them.
Have received prosthetic limbs.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
“It’s the global headquarters.
Of resilience.”
Says the CEO.
47-year-old.
“It’s the global headquarters.
Of resilience.”
Walking energetically.
Between patients’ wheelchairs.
“We want to.
Normalise disability.
OK, that’s how the country.
Is going to look.”
*Because I read “The woman helping amputees rebuild their lives in war-torn Ukraine” by Zhanna Bezpiatchuk & Anastasiya Gribanova on 10 Dec 2024, and also “Why are Ukrainians calling Russians ‘orcs’?” by James FitzGerald on 30 Apr 2022, on the BBC news.
So, I wrote this poem as a story of Olga Rudnieva.
Please read the original story on the BBC news:
War in Ukraine: The woman turning amputees into ‘superhumans’
