Updated On: 28 June, 2013 11:23 PM IST | | Soma Das
Kolhapur-based Naseema Mohammed Amin Hurzuk (63), Founder and President of Helpers of the Handicapped, was recently awarded the Woman of the Year award by the Indian Merchants' Chamber Ladies' Wing. The Guide chatted with this gutsy woman whose tireless efforts over decades have helped improve the lives of the physically challenged
Dance and sport were her life, but when Naseema Mohammed Amin Hurzuk turned 16, she became a paraplegic. Suddenly, she found herself bedridden and wheelchair-bound and she lost her will to live.

Naseema Hurzuk wants to focus on public infrastructure, at schools and colleges, which are ill-equipped for physically challenged students, and civic hospitals where rehab centres are needed within the premises that can be manned by the physically challenged.