Five-year-old paraplegic awarded wheelchair in Antalya

The child's unemployed mother, Özlem Kurt, participating in a campaign to collect blue bottle caps to get a wheelchair, managed to earn one for her paralyzed daughter. Kurt had a difficult time getting her daughter to and from the hospital and had to use a stroller before reading about the blue cap campaign in a newspaper, which prompted her to go door to door collecting bottle caps.

The Environmental Problems Research and Application Center's blue cap campaign coordinator, Huriye Oğuz, presented Gülperi with the wheelchair. When she sat in the wheelchair for the first time, the 5-year-old said, “I want to go outside.”