Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to amputee children thanks to crowdfunding

The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa's right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with life and fight social stigma. “It was heartbreaking when they told us they had to amputate it (the leg)," her mother, Esther Igbinosa, said of Princess's experience in 2020. The prosthesis came from the IREDE Foundation, a Nigerian group that provides children like her with free artificial limbs that normally cost $2,000 to $3,000.