Elmer and his sister, live with their grandmother, Florinda in Guatemala.

“I don’t think of them as my grandchildren but as my CHIILDREN,” she told us. “I have been raising them since they were born and love them dearly.”

The children’s mother abandoned them. Their father works far away, and sends a little money each month to help with food. Florinda told us there is never enough.

“When we don’t have enough money, I sell some of my chickens or eggs, so we have something to eat.”

Then Elmer developed a hernia. The doctor gave him pills for pain, but they didn’t help. As he got older, the hernia got larger, causing him to suffer even more.

“Sometimes the pain is so bad I cannot do anything but lie down,” Elmer said. “It feels like someone is splitting me in two with an ax. I cann

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