Carlo Migel Silvano is one of thousands of Filipinos fitted with the ‘Jaipur Foot’, a rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with below-knee amputations.
Manila: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with children during a visit to the Mahaveer Philippine Foundation in 2017, a philanthropist organisation in the Philippines that provides free Indian-made prosthesis 'Jaipur Foot' to needy amputees, in Manila, Philippines on Monday. PTI Photo / PIB
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A nine-year-old boy, Carlo Migel Silvano, who has been fitted with a prosthetic leg, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and expressed his desire to become a policeman.
Silvano, who is from Bulacan province of the Philippines, is one of thousands of Filipinos fitted with the ‘Jaipur Foot’, a rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with below-knee amputations. Carlo showed Modi how his Jaipur Foot is helping him move. The meeting between Modi and the 9-year-old took place at the Mahaveer Philippine Foundation Inc in Manila.
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Carlo told the PM he wants to be a policeman. Modi tweeted, “I want to be a policeman” my young friend told me. Glad to see the Jaipur Foot giving wings to the aspirations of many youngsters like him.”
Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More
