22 September 2011

Amelia

Fernando Cruz Vega, a three-year-old boy who was born without arms, draws in a room at the shanty town of Libertad in Comas, Lima, Peru. Deysi Vega, Fernando's mother, has travelled from Mollobamba in the jungles of Peru to Lima to seek medical help and rehabilitation therapies for her son.
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Photo credit REUTERS/Mariana Bazo, via the Telegraph.

1 comment:

  1. She should talk to Nick Vujicic...
    http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-nick/

    He's the star of The Butterfly Circus, and I'm sure he could inspire this family.

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