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HEERALAL'S PATH TO HEAVEN: (Express readers, we have an update on the story of double amputee Chris Heeralal, whose life was chronicled in our newspaper over the past few months. Take a bow, because this is what you accomplished.) Chris Heeralal sat alone in a rusting wheelchair outside his single room hilltop home at the end of a cratered canefield access road at Second Coryal, Princes Town. From the road to his room was a path of loose cinder blocks leading up the muddy slope that the double amputee had laid to get to and from his home. And this was how we first saw him that rainy morning in October, smiling as he looked down at his severed legs and that muddy path. How could a man with a physical disability live here? How, in 2021, could he be so shut off from the world around him? Was he trapped? Did he ever leave? But to Chris, this slippery trail had served as the only form of entry to his home, and one he had traversed countless times in the space of the eight months he learned to live without his feet. It has been less than three months since the Express first visited Heeralal at his home in Iere Village. And in the space of these weeks, he says, his life has been completely changed, its course diverted by the actions of a few generous citizens. Last week, Heeralal sat again in his wheelchair atop the muddy hill. He no longer needs to dismount and crawl to the roadside. The path of mud and loose blocks he once navigated in distress has been replaced by a sturdy concrete walkway, funded by these citizens. “I am lost for words. I really am, I don’t know how else to describe it, the things that these generous people have done for me, my life has changed completely,” he told the Express last week, before taking a ride in his wheelchair down the walkway. Check out the link in our stories or bio to read more #trinidadandtobago #trinidadandtobago🇹🇹 #trinidad #trini #trinidadnews #trinidadexpress #expressnews #expressnewspaper #news #current #pandemic #covid #instagram #coronavirus #follow #like #media #breakingnews #viral #trending #politics #noticias #news #tv #photography #currentaffairs

January 03, 2022