Fourth graders received their first stamp in their passports this week. We read a book called Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson and Sean Qualls. This book tells the true story of how Emmanuel, who grew up in Ghana, Africa, was born with only one strong leg. While other people with disabilities who lived in his village would never be offered work and would have to beg to survive, Emmanuel's mother made him work hard to overcome his disability. He would hop to school, two miles each way, and fetched water for his family and shined shoes for extra money.
To show people how people with disabilities could do what able-bodied people could do, he rode a bike around Ghana -- nearly four hundred miles -- in just ten days. People all around the country, disabled or not, cheered him on and saw firsthand that disability does not mean inability.
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