This story comes from a home for abandoned disabled children in Cajamarca, Peru, called Santa Dorotea. This is an epidemic throughout Peru where the parents don’t know what to do when a child is born with a disability. Several parents believe that if they give birth to a disabled child that means they have been cursed. They also don’t know how to care for them. They do not have the means or the knowledge. So, they end up abandoning them. 

The director of the home explained,

“We have 50 abandoned disabled children here at Santa Dorotea.  We are continually asking for aid, i.e., clothes, food, physical therapists, medical equipment, etc. Thankfully we receive clothing and food, but in the 10 years that we have been open we have never received anything like we received today! These 8 wheelchairs will help us so much!  Thank you for remembering the poorest of the poor, and especially these children!"