When he was 5 years old, Opiyo was accidentally dropped in a cauldron of boiling water by his mother after she was shot in the chest by rebel soldiers. His mother survived but his family has largely rejected him. He survived on the streets of Gulu by showing strangers his webbed torso and begging for money.
Jeannette Quinn, 45, a Smith College student, met him on a street in the northern Ugandan city of Gulu last summer and felt compelled to help him.
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