Solange Nyiraneza

Nyiraneza's parents, who were mixed Hutu-Tutsi, were killed in a robbery when she was three months old, her older sister and brother looked after her. When Solange was aged five, she went to play outside with her brother then fell and broke her patella, she hid her injury for a week to avoid her sister getting angry at her. They took her to hospital to have bone density tests and it was later discovered that Nyiraneza had bone cancer, she had her left leg amputated below the hip.^[2][3][4]