Help baby Samuel to learn how to walk

Dear helpful supporters,

This is the story of the progress from Samuel, the little baby that aid our help to learn how to walk. Thanks to each of your donations, we raised $US495 for the project “help baby Samuel to learn how to walk.”

This 18 months old pal, had his four extremities amputated due a very strong medicine that was supplied when he had a hearth operation. So yes, Samuel dos not have either his two hands or two legs. So Samuel came to Mahavir Kmina with his parents asking for a possibility to his son´s life. 

This little one was really excited with the tennis shoes he saw with many colors in the prostheses he would recive, he saw himself in the mirror and was shock that it was him. 

Around 20.000 Colombian people have suffered limb amputation due to land mines, armed conflict, traffic accidents, work place accidents and health related problems. In most cases amputee kids can't go to school, youths can't engage in higher education, and they can't participate in cultural or social activities. The rest of the family is also affected, especially the care giver, who cannot engage in any activity either. In most cases Colombian amputees can't afford the cost of the prosthesis

Mahavir Kmina invested your donations in the technology and effort to build him two low limb prosthesis so he could learn to walk with the help from our six donors that believed in his abilities to start over again.

Today baby Samuel is learning how to walk by the hand of his parents, a hospital guidance and the baby brother he will be having soon. Those are great news that fills us with hope and more chances for opportunities.

¡Once again we did it! We helped to build a better future for this baby, his family and the Colombian society. 

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