In this January 10, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, who uses a prosthetic right leg, holds still as his mother Nerlande Jean Philippe readies him for school at their home in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Despite his amputated leg, Judeley enthusiastically plays soccer and other games with schoolmates and hopes to study medicine when he's older. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 7, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, who walks on a prosthetic right leg, carries his saddle away after riding Tic Tac at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. After riding, Judeley gives Tic Tac a bath, and is also learning how to help hoist saddles onto the animals and prepare them for rides. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 8, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, right, who's right leg is a prosthesis, plays bottle cap soccer with a neighbor at his home in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Just 2 ½ years old at the time, Judeley's tiny body was pinned under earthquake rubble at his shattered concrete home in 2010. His mother dug him out and rushed him to a hospital where his leg was amputated. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 11, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, left, who's right leg is a prosthesis, rides Tic Tac at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley plays soccer and other games with schoolmates and hopes to study medicine when he's older, but his favorite activity is unquestionably riding Tic Tac, a roughly 32-year-old mare with a sweet disposition. His rapport with the animal was nearly immediate. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 8, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, whose right leg is a prosthesis, plays an electric piano at his home in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley was one of an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people to undergo amputations after the powerful earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital seven years ago. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 11, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, whose right leg is a prosthesis, caresses Tic Tac after riding her at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. “You're the best horse, you're the best horse”, the 9-year-old said soothingly to the tan polo pony when he arrived at her stable. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 7, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel squats down to remove a boot from Tic Tac, holding out his prosthetic leg after his therapeutic riding lesson at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Anne-Rose Schoen, who founded the equestrian center, said perhaps the most important thing about therapeutic riding is it makes youngsters happy in a country where disabled people face enormous challenges. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 8, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel stands on his one leg, holding a portrait of himself when he was 1-year-old, at his home in Petion-Ville, Haiti. When Judeley was 2 ½, he was one of thousands of people to undergo amputations after the powerful earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital seven years ago. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 7, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel dismounts Tic Tac with some help from his teacher at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Advocates of therapeutic riding say it improves balance, coordination and confidence with the movements of the horse mimicking pelvic motions involved in human walking. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 10, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel chats after school with his mother Nerlande Jean Philippe who holds his prosthetic leg, at their home in Petion-Ville, Haiti. The single, unemployed mother struggles to support him and has to do her best maintaining his battered prosthetic leg as he grows because she can't afford a new one. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 9, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, center, and his classmates joke around at school in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley, who hopes to study medicine when he's older, had his right leg amputated at the age of 2 ½ after his mother freed him from the rubble of the 2010 earthquake. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 11, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, who walks on a prosthetic right leg, feeds a horse at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley is one of a few dozen disabled people receiving therapeutic riding lessons at the center, according to his riding instructor, Louis Guerdes. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 7, 2017 photo, Judeley Hans Debel, who uses a prosthetic right leg, bathes Tic Tac after riding her at the Chateaublond Equestrian Center in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley runs as fast as his prosthetic leg can take him when he arrives where a riding session with his favorite horse is the highlight of his week. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this January 10, 2017 photo, Nerlande Jean Philippe escorts her son Judeley Hans Debel, who walks on a prosthetic right leg, to his transportation to school in Petion-Ville, Haiti. Judeley's unemployed mother says free weekly sessions of therapeutic horse riding offer her son a welcome respite from a life of urban poverty. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)