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WYCLEF'S YELE CHARITY GIVES A SHOPPING SPREE TO 3 INJURED HAITIAN GIRLS!

Girls want to be girls, no matter their circumstances.
Three Haitian girls who lost limbs in January's 7.0 magnitude earthquake were able to relax and shop Tuesday with $1,000 shopping sprees at Kmart.

The W. 34th St. store partnered with Wyclef Jean and his charity, Yele Haiti, to give the girls much-needed clothing and shoes, as well as electronics and makeup.

"When you come from a country where you make $1 a day, giving them $1,000 is like giving them $10,000," Jean said.

The girls who arrived in New York Tuesday morning will also be fitted for prosthetic limbs on June 3.

The youngest of the three girls, Farah Maurice, 8, lost a leg above the knee in the earthquake.

But she didn't seem to think about her disability as she zoomed around the girl's department with her crutch, picking out clothes to fill her personal shopping cart.

"They need to know there are people like them and they're normal," Jean said. "Today they're not thinking, 'I don't have a leg.' They're just being kids and they're happy."

The other two girls, Magarette Pierre, 17, and Chantal Mori, 17, each lost an arm.

"I want to buy clothes and shoes," Mori said in Creole. "I'm very happy."

The girls will later be treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Philadelphia for free.

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