Difficulty: Summiteer (Level 3)
As soon as Sidra Al Bordeeni returned from the clinic with her prosthetic arm, she jumped on a bicycle. The eight-year-old lives in a Jordanian refugee camp. This was the first time she had ridden a bicycle since an Israeli missile strike in Gaza took her arm a year ago.
Sidra was injured while sheltering at Nuseirat School, one of many Gaza schools that had to become temporary shelters from Israeli strikes.
Her new arm was built over 4,000km away in Karachi, Pakistan, by a company called Bioniks. To make the custom prosthetic, the company used a smartphone app to take photographs from different angles and create a 3D model.
Three-year-old Habebat Allah lost both her arms and a leg in Gaza. She and Sidra went through days of remote consultations and virtual fittings. Then the company CEO, Anas Niaz, flew from Karachi to Amman, Jordan, to meet the girls and make his company’s first overseas delivery.
