Fareeda, an 8-year-old Afghan girl, left, stands beside her father Mohammed, center, and a U.S. Army crew chief outside a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter in Patika Province, Afghanistan. Fareeda, who had a severely-deformed right hand due to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hemihypertrophy" class="extiw" title="w:hemihypertrophy">hemihypertrophy</a>, was discovered on a patrol by an Afghan National Army soldier, and through the help of the U.S. military and various charitable organizations, corrective surgery on her hand was performed by Dr. Scott Kozin at the Shriner's Children's Hospital in Philadelphia.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Matson
Taken on 4 August 2011
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