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Wend Emmanuel was born hes dad left the house/town  and Emmanuel mom and him were alone and one day Emmanuel mom  got sick  and Emanuel escape his house and went to the big town and was trying to get a work and some  said go beging for mony

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1.Emmuanuel was born with one leg  and his dad saw him  for the first time but he left and never came back.                                                               2.He won awards from ESPN and nike.                                                                3. One of his friends went online and found a website  and that website cave him a bike,helmet,gloves,clothing and gloves. 4.

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1.Emmanuel he was born with out a leg and  his dad was sad that he left.2.Emmanuel he road a mountain almost 400 miles with his bike.3.Emmanuel won awards from ESPN and people were cheering for him and saying pozo,pozo  but they were not making fun of him.4.And Emmanuel mom was sick that she coulden't go anywere that Emmanuel haved to go

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1.that hes won 25,000 doing the challenge.

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1.Emmanuel won awards of ESPN and nike

2.Emmanuel wants to build a school in Ghana

3.Emmanuel was born without a leg

4.Emmanuels mother had gotten sick and couldn't work or get up of be dcause she was really sick

5.Emmanuel had to go away from hes home to go to work and make money to help hes mom get food and needs

6>3 .hes dad left the house when emmanuel was born because of hes leg he though he was wothless

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1.Emmanuel won awards from ESPN and Nike .                                          2.Emmanuel was born with a broken leg.                                                  2.Emmanuel rode his bike all across his hole town and everyone cheered for him.                                                          3.Emmanuel remembered what his mom told him never give up.                  4.Emmanuel was really happy that he had won

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1.Emmanuel won the ESPN and Nike award.                                                  2.Emmanuel wants to build a school in Ghana.                                       3.He learned how to ride a bike even tho it was really hard.                      4.He wanted to ride a bike from San Diego to Whashington D.C.             5.Emmanuels dad left the house when he was born because of his leg.                                                                     6.His mom died and his dad left so he had to work hard to take care of his sibling and to make money to help.

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1.that emmanuel went he wast little he just had want leg and then he came back and and go back to school and then one day

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1 Emanuel he was born whit out a leg and when his dad saw him he left the house and he never came back .2 her mom carried Emanuel to school

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1.he rode almost 400m in a bike in 10 days.2. he was wering a t-shirt that sad the the pozo .3.he scremd pozo pozo ad every body was laughing about him.4.he wantsto bild a schoolin ahana for disable kids to 700 kids from kindergarten to 12 grade.6.the bicycle had two pedals and he ride with one leag

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1: Emanuel was born without a leg thats why his dad left and never came back 2: When most pepole stayed home beacause of not having leg.3: Emmanuel won the ESPN and Nike award . 4: Emmanuel wanted to learn how to ride a bike  and he did even tho it was really hard. 5 : WHen he was going around goza he weared a shrit named POZO that meant deformed .

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1.He became a hero for a lot of people.

2.He had to hop to school in one leg and come back.

3.He was never going to beg in the streets like other people who are deformed do.

4.He had to live with his mother only because his dad left when he was born

5. Emenuel learned how to ride a bicycle even though it was realy hard

6.He went around with a shirt that had THE POZO,that means something like deformed.

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1.Emmanuel Yeboah was born with only one leg.                                                          2.Emmanuel want to build a school in Ghana.

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1.Emmanuel Yeboah was born with only one leg.                                                          2.Emmanuel want to build a school in Ghana.

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1.Emmanuel won awards of ESPN and nike

2.Emmanuel wants to build a school in Ghana

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1.Emmanuel won awards from ESPN and nike.                                          2.Emmanuel's mother had died and he remeberd that she said that

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1.Emmanuel win awards in ESPN of nike.
2.they make fun of Emmanuel because of his feet.
3.he want to build a school in ghana of the disabled.
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1.What happend to Emmanuel Yeboah is that they were calling him Pozo,Pozo and not making fun of him they were cheering.2.He rode a mountain

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Read the following article about Emmanuel Yeboah. After reading the article, write six facts about Emmanuel's life. Do not copy sentences from the article. Write your facts in your own words.

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Two pedals, one leg - the bicycle and Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah weren't exactly made for each other.

He got on one anyway, and it changed his life. Changed other people's lives, too.

Now the San Diegan wants to do it all again.

Yeboah, 38, was born in Ghana without a shinbone in his right leg. The deformity set him up for life as an outcast in a country where babies with deformities are considered cursed, divine punishment for some transgression by the parents. His likely future career? Begging for money on the streets.

His mother believed he could be more than that, though, and her dream became his dream.

After she died, he decided to honor her hopes for him by cycling one-legged across Ghana. He wanted to raise awareness for the plight of the disabled while setting an example for what was possible.

He rode a mountain bike almost 400 miles in 10 days, clad in a T-shirt with "The Pozo" - disabled person - printed on the front. "Pozo! Pozo!" people yelled as he rode by, but they weren't making fun of him. They were cheering.

By the time he was done, he'd gone from curiosity to national hero. Government officials, their eyes opened, eventually passed legislation giving the disabled greater rights.

Maybe his story sounds familiar. In 2005, he was the subject of a documentary, "Emmanuel's Gift," narrated by Oprah Winfrey. She had him on her television show. Newspapers and magazines did features about him. He won awards from ESPN and Nike.

He met with Kofi Annan, then secretary general of the United Nations and a fellow Ghanian, and went to the White House to speak with President George W. Bush, a fellow mountain-biking enthusiast.

And then the public's attention moved on, as it always does, to other dreams, to other dreamers.

Except Yeboah isn't finished with his.

He wants to build a school in Ghana for the disabled, an academic and sports academy that would serve 700 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. He already has the land, a gift from the government, and they've already had the groundbreaking ceremony. Now he needs to raise $3 million to $5 million to get it built and opened.

So he's formed a nonprofit organization, Emmanuel's Dream. He has a website (emmanuelsdream.org) and business cards with his photo on them. He gives motivational speeches. But he also knows what got him noticed in the first place.

He's getting back on the bike.

'Don't give up'

The plan is to ride from San Diego to Oregon, 1,082 miles in 21 days. Yeboah said he is leaving Nov. 6.

He'd hoped to line up more sponsors by now - money for meals, hotel rooms, gas for the support van that will follow him - but he works two jobs to support his wife and three daughters and hasn't had much time for fund-raising. It may turn out he only has enough money to ride to the Bay Area.

Which is OK, he said, because this is just a warm-up. Next year he wants to ride from San Diego to Washington, D.C.

"I have something to tell the world," Yeboah said. "I can't quit now."

Not quitting - he got that from his mother.

Comfort Yeboah is the one who refused to listen to relatives who suggested her baby with the short, twisted leg be poisoned or taken into the wilderness and abandoned. She's the one who sold vegetables in the market to support the family after her husband disappeared. And she's the one who carried him to school every day, two miles each way, until he got too big. (Then he hopped on one leg to class.) She didn't care that nobody else sent their disabled kids to school.

Comfort Yeboah got sick in 1990, when her son was 13. To help support the family, he left their home in Koforidua and took the train 150 miles to the capital of Accra, where he shined shoes. He made $2 a day, a typical wage in Ghana.

Several years passed. His mother's condition worsened. He went home and she told him never to resort to street begging. "And don't give up," she said. She died the next day.

Yeboah said he considered her final words to be a gift, one that he needed to honor by showing other people what was possible for those with disabilities. That's when he got the idea for his cross-country bike ride.

But first things first: He needed a bike.

A missionary friend went on the Internet and found the website for the Challenged Athletes Foundation, a San Diego nonprofit that provides equipment and grants to disabled people so they can pursue active lifestyles. The idea behind the group is that involvement in sports increases self-esteem and encourages independence.

Yeboah and his friend typed up a grant application and mailed it to San Diego.

Where Bob Babbitt, one of the foundation's co-founders, remembers hearing about the request and thinking, "Ghana?"

Coming to America

They sent Yeboah a mountain bike and a helmet, some riding clothes and gloves. "I figured we'd probably never hear from him again," Babbitt said.

But then, in 2001, they kept seeing snippets of media reports about this guy who had tied his deformed right leg to the frame of a bike and was pedaling with just his left leg across Ghana, trying to change people's perceptions about the disabled.

Which of course is what CAF is all about, too. "He was making an entire country pay attention," Babbitt said. "Lance Armstrong used to say 'It's not about the bike.' With Emmanuel, it was all about the bike."

The foundation flew Yeboah to San Diego for its signature event, the Triathlon Challenge. He'd never been outside Ghana before, never been on an airplane. He showed up with $3 in his pocket, got on a bicycle and pedaled more than 50 miles one-legged. It took him seven hours.

The Triathlon's title sponsor that year was Loma Linda medical center. Doctors there were asked to take a look at Yeboah, see if maybe he was a candidate for a prosthesis. He was. His damaged leg was amputated above the knee and he was fitted with a $15,000 high-tech artificial limb.

His operation was news back in Ghana, and when he went home, crowds were waiting. For the first time in his life, he walked on two legs on his native soil. For the first time in his life there, he wore long pants.

Documentary filmmakers (and twin sisters) Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern captured all of this. They'd been alerted early on by Babbitt that there might be a moving story in Yeboah's crusade. So the cameras were also there when Nike gave Yeboah its annual Casey Martin Award, named after the pro golfer with a rare degenerative condition who went to court to win the right to use a golf cart during tournaments.

The award came with $25,000, which the Challenged Athletes Foundation matched. Yeboah used the money to fund scholarships and buy wheelchairs for the disabled in Ghana. The cameras caught that, too, and the scene of people who have been crawling their whole lives suddenly given the mobility that wheelchairs provide is among the most touching in "Emmanuel's Gift."

The film led to speaking engagements for Yeboah across the U.S. and in more than a half-dozen other countries. It also caught the attention of Laurie Ann Thompson, a writer in Seattle who worked with illustrator Sean Qualls on a children's book, "Emmanuel's Dream," which came out in January.

"Children can identify with what he went through," Thompson said. "They know what it feels like to have people overlooking their abilities, selling them short, telling them what to do. How often have we heard kids say, 'I can do it myself'?"

Yeboah's spent most of his life showing doubters what he can do. "It's a challenge every day," he said. Working two jobs, one at the YMCA, one at a restaurant. Supporting a wife and two daughters in Ghana and another daughter, Linda (a sixth-grader named after the hospital where he got his prosthesis), who lives with him in North Park. Participating on the U.S. National Amputee soccer team.

And figuring out how to keep his dream alive to build a school for disabled students in his homeland.

"A dreamer is someone who continues to do big work until the day he dies," Yeboah said. "If you stop in the middle, you're not a hero. You keep going. That's what matters. You keep going."

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Two pedals, one leg - the bicycle and Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah weren't exactly made for each other. He got on one anyway, and it changed his life. Changed other people's lives, too. Now the San Diegan wants to do it all again. Yeboah, 38, was born in Ghana without a shinbone in his right leg.