From despair to hope: Ruth's story
October 2015 will be marked in Ruth's memory forever. A neighborhood game turned into a nightmare when her son, Edwin, accidentally got a syringe in his eye, causing a retinal detachment. Ruth and her son were confronted with a challenging journey to recovery after spending days in the hospital and undergoing seven surgeries.
Due to socioeconomic hardships in Venezuela, Ruth was constantly traveling to Colombia. Each trip was a desperate scramble for funds to cover Edwin's mounting medical bills. Complications on each trip across the Colombian-Venezuelan border deteriorated her state of mind. In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, she decided to move to Colombia permanently.
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