evidence: For these victims, the road to recovery, physical and mental, is long and rocky. Victims can suffer extensive facial and body disfigurement, lose their sight and experience severe depression and anxiety, fearing others will shun their scarred appearance. Yet acid attacks survivors are finding the courage to reclaim their lives — and seeking to raise public awareness and help stop future attacks. Their strategies include taking to the fashion runway, sharing their experiences in comic books and appearing in video resumes that show potential employers they are far more than their scars. [...] Acid attack survivors have also, in the past months, become fashion models as well as role models, walking the runways in New York and London. At New York's Fashion Week, FTL Moda's runway show featured 19-year-old Reshma Bano Qureshi, whose path to the runway began two years ago with near tragedy.