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21-year-old woman who has never worn shoes

By Monitoring Desk
May 22, 2018

HELD KASHMIR: A young woman in India has feet so large that she has never been able to wear shoes and had to drop out of school because she was bullied so much.Tawheeda Jan, 21, has elephantiasis – a parasitic infection which has made her feet swell so much she had to have her toes amputated as a teenager. But after years of unsuccessful treatment, Ms Jan still suffers from the condition and says her only wish is to be able to wear shoes like her friends. From a remote village called Soi-Pathri, in the Kashmir region of India, Ms Jan has to stay indoors during winter because there can be up to ten feet of snow. Ms Jan said: ‘All my life I have been deprived of the joy of wearing shoes.