Umar Mariam is 14 years Old and lives at Kofar Naisa. She is a native of Sokoto State and attends Arabic School. She lives with her both parent. Mariam was 3 yrs old when she noticed that she was without hands. She inquired from her parents and they made her understand that, that was how she was born. Nature has however compensated her. She is able to manipulate her legs to do things.

She started using her two legs to do whatever labor she has to do since she knew she does not have hands to do it. She believes that God has reasons for making her armless so she tries her possible best to engage herself to learn the habit of using her two legs for such purposes. Many household work like pressing of clothes , receiving calls, lighting the stove with matches, cooking, bathing, writing, eating, drinking, infact anything one can do with the hand she does with her legs. (SHE DEMOSTRATES).
She said she does not feel the absence of not having hands. She said her source of strength and joy is in her creator who had deposited manipulative skills in her two legs. She believes that there is ability in disability and there is a purpose people like her are created the way they are.