Helping Colombian children with disabilities

Dear Patronato Community,

I hope you are all in good health. Today I would like to share with you Esmeralda’s story.

Esmeralda is four years old and has a hearing disability. She was born in the city of Aragua, Venezuela and due to the crisis in that country she moved to Colombia with her family in search of better economic opportunities. She belongs to a large family made up of his mother, grandmother, cousins, and uncles. Esmeralda loves to have fun with educational games and draw pictures.

Since she was born, she was diagnosed with conductive hearing loss. This type of hearing problem occurs when something prevents sound waves from passing into the inner ear through the outer and middle ear.

Upon arriving in Colombia, she was referred to our foundation because she requires comprehensive rehabilitation services to strengthen the development of cognitive, auditory, linguistic, and oral communication skills that favor school inclusion processes.

In addition, she receives care for occupational therapy, speech therapy, otolaryngology, and otology consultations.

Thanks to your donation received through GlobalGiving, Esmeralda has improved her hearing and the development of her language that has allowed her to listen and express herself better with her surroundings. She has a much better quality of life because of you.

Please stay safe and until the next success story!

Eternally grateful,

Natalia

Luciana is two years old and lives with her mother and brother in the city of Medellin, Colombia. From an early age she was diagnosed with Down Syndrome.

She is a very happy girl who enjoys playing with dolls, listening to music, interacting with other people and dancing.

Luciana and her mother came to the Patronato Foundation in February 2020 because they did not have the economic capacity to assume the therapies and rehabilitation with their own resources and they learned about our work through the experience of caring for another beneficiary child.

With the support received through GlobalGiving, Luciana has had comprehensive rehabilitation care and as a result has developed cognitive, adaptive and social skills achieving a good relationship with her environment and new forms of participation and social inclusion; she has also been a beneficiary of specialized consultations in speech therapy, psychology, hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.

Together we can achieve that Luciana has a harmonic development in health and she can create the next steps while she dances.

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