Good Friends, Let's Help Osi Get a Prosthetic Leg So She Can Continue School

Osi Aulia, a 14-year-old teenager, never imagined how her life would change after a fall whilst fleeing a dog bite near her home. Osi was diagnosed with a bone tumour, leading to the amputation of her right leg.

“At first I kept falling and couldn’t get up. It’s been a year now,” said Osi, describing the period from the fall, makeshift care at home, through to the amputation, in an interview with berbuatbaik.id on Monday (3/8/2026).

Throughout that period, Osi was unable to continue her schooling in Year 8. Now that her medical treatment is complete, Osi wants to return to the classroom. Her former classmates have meanwhile moved on to Year 9, leaving Osi to catch up on the education she has missed.

However, continuing her education is no simple matter for Osi. Coming from a pre-prosperous family, with a father unable to work due to illness and a mother employed as a tea picker, Osi has difficulty accessing a prosthetic leg. The medical device is essential to help her carry out daily activities.

Osi herself regularly helps her mother sell fried snacks to help meet the family’s needs. She usually sells them according to the school timetable and holidays, not far from her home in Tenjolaya Village, Pasirjambu District, Bandung Regency, West Java.

With a prosthetic leg, Osi hopes to return to school and improve her family’s circumstances, so that her mother, Popon, no longer has to wake before dawn to travel to the plantation and carry tens of kilograms of tea leaves for a meagre income.

According to Heri, a volunteer with berbuatbaik.id, Osi’s education must continue. Education is the key to improving the family’s life and ensuring they are no longer trapped in pre-prosperity. Formal schooling should be completed through to senior secondary school (SMA) or its equivalent.

A prosthetic leg is a vital necessity for people with physical disabilities affecting incomplete limbs. Accessing one is far from easy, even though the JKN-KIS health insurance scheme is available to everyone. The distance to hospitals, the high cost of transport, and the awareness needed to continue therapy until one can move properly all stand in the way.

For this reason, social programmes providing prosthetic limbs are greatly needed by patients from pre-prosperous backgrounds. Such programmes are expected to bring access and therapy closer to patients, enabling them to regain their independence.

Dear friends, let’s help Osi obtain a prosthetic leg so she can attend school and pursue her dreams.