Give prosthetics to low limbs amputees in Colombia

Many thanks to all the donors that are contributing to our project “Give prosthetics to low limbs amputees in Colombia” of the Mahavir Kmina Corporation.

This time, we want to share the story of Johennys. A miracle of life.

Johennys was only ten months old, she was sleeping pleasantly under her mother’s arms when the bus lost its brakes and it fell off the cliff on a tight curve. ‘We were spinning in the air, and the only thought I had was my baby in my arms, so I held her tightly”. Said Kelly. The bus rolled up to a wooded area, where trees made it stop.

When everything was calm, Kelly wasn’t feeling any pain because of the adrenaline, so she couldn’t think about her injuries until she checked all the girl’s body. Whilst checking Johennys, she found that one of her legs wasn’t there.

The accident happened close to town, where she managed to arrive by herself with the baby to the hospital. ‘Such a serious injury on a baby can be deadly. If she didn’t bleed to death it is because the cut wasn’t produced with a sharp object and the wound was sealed immediately after it occurred”, explained the doctor to Kelly. There a medical team realized the first of three reconstructive surgeries on the stump.

Today, Johennys is three years old and she has never feel unmotivated about it. “I haven’t met another girl as happy as she is. Her happiness gives me the strength to move on. She learned how to walk with a walker and afterward with a prosthesis donated by the Red Cross. At the Kinder garden, she showed her prosthesis proudly to the other kids, and she never felt upset. They appreciated her positive attitude. Nobody has taught me the meaning of happiness and perseverance as her”.

Kelly, her husband, and the baby, like many others, scaped of the social reality in Venezuela. Now they are living in Colombia looking for a promising future to Johennys.

When the first prosthesis started to be small for her, Kelly searched online and she found Mahavir Kmina. This is how Johennys was going to become a beneficiary of the institution that has already given free prosthesis to more than 4500 people in the continent.

Kelly can be sure that her baby will continue being a beneficiary of this institution, as long as she needs it because in Mahavir Kmina didn’t receive just a prosthesis, she also got an opportunity to start over.