This is Daniela, a two-year-old girl from Guatemala. Daniela was developing like any other healthy baby until she contracted meningitis, a very serious bacterial infection affecting the brain and spinal cord. Since then, her development has been severely delayed and is stymied at a six-month-old’s level.
Her loving parents are determined to help their daughter but lack the financial resources to provide her with the treatment she needs. For $700, we can help Daniela’s parents pay for physical and nutritional therapy as well as long-term medical follow-up care. Her doctors expect great things from these treatments, including improvements in motor coordination, speech, and intellectual capacity.

