Emmanuel's Gift (2005) on Netflix
G20051h 20mDocumentary
In Ghana, disabled people are often poisoned, left to die or hidden away. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with a deformed right leg and sets out to ride a bicycle across Ghana.
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Ghana is home to twenty million people, and two million of them are disabled. A disabled baby there may be poisoned, left to die or hidden in a room, and many disabled Ghanaians spend their lives begging. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with a right leg that was severely deformed. His father left the family when he learned of the disability, and his mother raised him in a small home. As an adult, Emmanuel asked the Challenged Athletes Foundation in California for a bicycle. The foundation sent one, and he set out to cycle nearly 380 miles across Ghana.
