By Laurie Kamens PUBLISHED: 16:31 EST, 4 August 2013 | UPDATED: 08:16 EST, 6 August 2013 Eleven-year-old Farida was just playing in her backyard in Afghanistan when a bomb went off tearing through her eye and killing three of her siblings. The young girl was given a second chance after her family defied the Taliban and collaborated with U.S. relief forces to give Farida the surgery she needed. Through Solace for Children, a charity which helps injured children get medical attention, Farida was flown to North Carolina where she was treated for her missing eye and found a second home with a loving American family.
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Farida, 11, lost her eye in Afghanistan to a Taliban-planted bomb
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Her father defied the Taliban and sent her to America with a U.S.-based charity to get her medical aid
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Farida was emotionally adopted by her American host family and received corrective eye surgery her family's financial circumstances would not have allowed her to get otherwise
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In @placeholder he wounds were treated so that her left eye socket has now been fitted with a conformer shell, according to the paper, a clear plastic lens which reduces the friction in her eye socket when she blinks.