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CNNNew York (CNN) -- Five year-old Malaak Al-Shami arrived in the U.S. on Thursday evening to get fitted with a prosthetic leg after suffering injuries in Libya's raging civil war.
She landed at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Germany, the last part in a journey arranged by the Global Medical Relief Fund, a U.S. nonprofit.
The group aids children who have lost the use of, or are missing, limbs or eyes. It says it is funded almost exclusively by donations.
Malaak and her parents are being housed temporarily at The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, which shelters families with sick children undergoing treatment at area hospitals.
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