#SpecialStars: Mentally-challenged girl from Maha wins Special Olympic medal
She is now an Olympic champion, she has won a bronze medal for her motherland India. Winning a medal for our country in the Olympics is a dream of every athlete or a player, but it is even a bigger achievement when someone with special needs wins a medal as they have put in unimaginable hard work to reach that goal
Julekha is a 19-year-old orphaned girl, she was found by Kalpana Verpe at a roadside at a tender age of seven. Kalpana is the founder of the NGO named ‘Aniket Seva Bhavi’ in Pune. She raised and took care of her as one of her own. Julekha lives in a shelter home run by the NGO […]
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