Emmanuel’s Gift

Emmanuels GiftEmmanuel Ofosue Yeboah, an orphan with a severely deformed right leg, who earns $2 per day shining shoes, writes a letter to the Challenged Athletes Foundation asking for a bicycle so that he can bike across Ghana to demonstrate that disabled people do not have to be beggars, that they can make a valuable contribution to society. After his successful ride across the country and a trip to California where he receives a prosthesis for his leg, Emmanuel returns to Ghana to build a national disabled sports team, distribute wheelchairs to the disabled, set up a scholarship program to send kids to school, and lead a political movement to advance the rights of the disabled. “I want to spread a message about how to change perceptions and the only way is to lead by example.” 2005, 80 minutes.

2 thoughts on “Emmanuel’s Gift

  1. This is how I like to envision leadership -seeing someone dare to do what must have been frightening and then tranform himself and others in such a way that there was no turning back. Emmanuel’s leadership inspires the faint-hearted among us to step up in our own communities.

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