Meet Rakesh! He is 14 and lives in Nepal. Rakesh is in 9th grade and excels in economics and accounting. He loves to play cricket and dreams of one day playing professionally. Rakesh’s father is away working in India and the rest of his family are farmers. Rakesh has been diagnosed with a hernia; a protrusion through the muscle wall in the abdominal cavity. He suffers pain and swelling as a result, and without treatment his condition could cause bowel strangulation and death. The cost of surgery to correct his condition is $1,390. This surgery will relieve Rakesh of this pain and allow him to pursue his dream without the risks of the hernia.