By YOLIMA MENDEZ | YOLIMA MENDEZ
Your contribution is essential to accompany children like Yulieth!
Yulieth is one of the girls who is part of the childhood cancer program of the
Colombian foundation of leukemia and lymphoma, she’s 7 years old, she’s cheerful, creative, she loves to paint and draw, she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on September 15, 2017 .
Her mother manifests that the life of Yulieth and her relatives was transformed, they experienced fear and sadness, but Yulieth in the midst of her pain and tiredness provided them with enough energy to accept that hard situation, after understanding the situation of her daughter she knew that it was time to provide strength and begin their treatment with discipline and positivism.
Funcolombiana has worked with her on the art therapy project at the hospital where she receives treatment, she has always been cheerful, and proactive, she is an extroverted girl who manages to make good relationship with other people for her sincerity and innocence, her family expresses that the foundation came at the most difficult time for them and with the accompaniment of the foundation has been all easier, because through the activities have known other cases of children in the same situation and have understood that the disease is a learning process.
From their treatment, the people around Yulieth wonder how a little girl of 7 years can radiate so much happiness and tranquility being in such a difficult situation, and they have understood that the courage is provided by children, today in the family of Yulieth define her as a warrior from which she learns every day.
Yulieth's mother expresses that now more than ever she values the well-being of her daughter, she says that in the small details she has found happiness, so today she knows that the smile on Yulieth's face is priceless.
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