Leg Up Horse Therapy Program: Giving Back
Leg Up is the compassion component of Freedom Firm that facilitates rescued young women helping disabled children ride horses. Girls heal when they focus on helping others instead of themselves.
Annapoorna recently joined Ruhamah Designs at the Freedom Firm office in Ooty. She is 30, one of our oldest women, and is physically challenged. Deeply depressed and traumatized, she cried every day when she first arrived in the workshop. Every Saturday she joins the other girls at Leg Up. She reaches for a brush and starts grooming Firefly, our highly strung Marwari horse. A smile lights her whole face. He is completely relaxed and enjoys her caress. She grasps the lead rope to guide him as he carries a small child on his back. She is choosing to lead. She is choosing to reach out and touch horses, touch children and in the process change lives. The double impact of physiotherapy the young women receive and the mental and emotional release through riding and interacting with the horses and children continues to be a magical recipe in the lives of the young women who are part of our Ooty program.
Annapoorna recently joined Ruhamah Designs at the Freedom Firm office in Ooty. She is 30, one of our oldest women, and is physically challenged. Deeply depressed and traumatized, she cried every day when she first arrived in the workshop. Every Saturday she joins the other girls at Leg Up. She reaches for a brush and starts grooming Firefly, our highly strung Marwari horse. A smile lights her whole face. He is completely relaxed and enjoys her caress. She grasps the lead rope to guide him as he carries a small child on his back. She is choosing to lead. She is choosing to reach out and touch horses, touch children and in the process change lives. The double impact of physiotherapy the young women receive and the mental and emotional release through riding and interacting with the horses and children continues to be a magical recipe in the lives of the young women who are part of our Ooty program.
