Ouch! Medical Help

Street life is not a healthy life! Help us to restore the children as they fight off infection and disease and leave behind the trauma of their past life.

Bianca's story...

Bianca lived on the streets all her life. Her experience of life was of being used and hurt at every corner. Yet she had a beautiful smile and a beautiful spirit. She was one of the first girls to move into one of the first homes opened by the charity for former street girls. She had come home. However, it soon became obvious she was very ill.

Bianca was one of a growing number of people in Guatemala with HIV, which developed into AIDs. Children have many medical problems when they come off the streets, from minor skin infections, to psychiatric problems which are dealt with - but this was an illness for which we could provide comfort for the symptoms but not a cure.

Tragically, the final toll of AIDS on Bianca's life was too much for her to want to share with her new family and she left the home to die quietly alone. The street team met her shortly before her death and she said how grateful she was for the brief spell of happiness and love we had given.

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