amazing grace

Finally, after five months of surgery and rehabilitation in Denver, prudence Mabhena dog sitting in his wheelchair. And that is enough for a singer to sing an amazing “Amazing Grace.”

But when Mabhena, 24, returns to Zimbabwe this summer, will continue his more gratitude for the surgical team at Children’s Hospital. Mabhena, the subject of an Oscar winning documentary “Music of prudence,” demonstrates the continuing commitment of Denver, under the help of many people who offered their time and money for the sake of your health and happiness.

“It’s amazing that someone his love comes to an alien who lives 20,000 miles away, across the world to find,” said Mabhena, in his hotel suite in the south of Denver, where he lived, without charge, as arrive. “I did not know that I go to a place where people have such love and affection.”

Mabhena, who was paralyzed by a congenital disease at birth, could have died without surgery. But a series of chance encounters – foster parent for its increasing popularity as a singer – took her to Denver, where the staff of Children’s Hospital for their cattle expensive time advantage. When an owner of a restaurant dedicated to the historical record of life for their welfare. When a hotel owner gave him a good place to stay.

If Wednesday to benefit will be held in his honor to raise money for the expensive electric wheelchair had never been to Zimbabwe. Given the range of motion in his arms is tiny, it always depends on pushing people around.

Denver Mabhena time is uplifting, fun events and times. However, in the rough, difficult and painful procedures.

She’s used to fight.

Mabhena was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that his legs twisted and denied the ability to walk. When I was young, his deformed legs amputated below the knees.

The condition in Zimbabwe Some believe she was a witch or possessed by the devil. Parents also caused the separation of her when she was a child. His mother and father, said he could not handle the stress of his birth made in their lives.

At first, when the time is divided between the parents and grandparents homes, began to sing. She remembers sitting at her grandmother’s house and play in the dirt, as if cooked, imitating her voice singing grandmother. Then she sang in church. People told him it was good.

He hid his voice in school, however, until one day when she was 12 and thought I was alone in a hallway. A teacher heard it.

“Are you the one who was singing?” the teacher asked. Mabhena said they were afraid to answer honestly, because students had to be quiet in the hallways. “Something told me I’d be in trouble. But something told me to say yes.”

Caught led directly to the school choir, which makes everything else: the construction of a band, receive notifications, which attracts a filmmaker, performing around the world, travel to Hollywood to attend the Oscar ceremonies take. A trip to the Telluride Film Festival takes her to a doctor who immediately realized that he needed surgery, or could not survive. I had friends in the Children’s Hospital. Asked if the hospital could help.

“We believe we have a responsibility to children around the world that is a life threatening condition and our experience can make a difference,” said Dr. Stephen Berman, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital. “If they had lived in the United States, which prefers the many operations that allowed the back should be straight.”

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