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Umar, 8, son of Aminu Ahmen El Wada, the Founder and Chairman of the Kano State Polio Victims Trust Association and crippled with polio, stands with the help of a crutch, in the guinea fowl house at his home in Kano, Nigeria. There are seven children in the family and Umar is the only child with polio and the only one who was not born in a hospital and contracted the virus when he was a toddler. Both of his parents are crippled with polio.