"Nasser" .. Mocha child who crawled to school 38 years ago to defeat the impossible
English - Sunday 15 September 2019 الساعة 05:56 pm
Mocha – NewsYemen.net
38 years ago, Abdo Mohammed Nasser was about to become a number on the list of the physically disabled after he was suddenly infected with spinal fever in a rural area called Kadiha south of Mocha.
Nasser still remembers this, saying that he felt severe back pain down the neck, lost his mobility and could not enjoy the fruit he brought with his friends from a farm guard in his rural town.
He was almost unconscious and without a healing hope. His family found no way to regain his health except to take him to a nearby local clinic, but the modest means, then, only saved him from death, and couldn’t save him from disability.
Nasser waited a year to adapt to the new situation, and tried to walk on his feet several times, but failed each time after his lower limbs lost the ability to move completely.
One morning, when he watched students from his rural town cross in front of his house on their way to school, he was disappointed by his situation and was unable to find a way to go with them to school.
The following year, however, he decided to inform his father of his desire for education.
To comfort him, his father went to school to register him as a first-grade student. It was a joy for a child who loved education and saw a lifeline that would save him from the situation he had become.
"I went early and the enthusiasm for education pushed me so strongly that I crawled to get to school," Nasser told Newsyemen.
The years passed quickly, during which he achieved outstanding marks that gave him an impetus to continue, until he completed his preparatory school, to be confronted with the fact that there were no high school classes in his school.
He thought about moving to another school, but it was not easy. Getting to a school about one and a half kilometers from his home would where it would require transportation, which is not available, so he decided to use a donkey owned by his family to get to the new school.
“I was passionate about education and achieved excellent grades, so I quickly completed the three years as if it were just a few months,” he says.
Upon completing the secondary school, he was confused about how to enroll in university education, especially the directorate of Mokha, which is devoid of the presence of universities. He decided to move to the city of Taiz and join the Society for the Disabled to learn in one of its institutes how to use the computer.
He studied a whole year and learned how to deal with a computer. There he also met one of his colleagues and decided to marry her after he had approached her.
It was a long time before he got a job befitting his own situation until one of his colleagues showed him the availability of job grades for people with special needs at the oil company in the province of Taiz, he applied for one of the grades accordingly, and then moved to the port of Mocha to work on the computer, to print All correspondence of the branch of the oil company in the port.
In 2006 he decided to marry the partner he loved when her met her at the computer Education Institute, to start a new life full of happiness and stability.
Nasser now lives with his wife in a house in Mocha, using a four-wheeled motorcycle for his commute and bringing in his daily necessities, achieving a miracle to overcome the disability he suffered in his childhood to live a normal life.
