Hey Folks, Below is a story of an 11 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy. He basically has no motor skills, can not speak or show emotion. To make things worse this young kid lives in a village in the Amazon Jungle. His family does their best to take care of him but they need our help. All we ask is you read the story of this young boy and his family. If you feel like you would like to help, anything will do. Thank you for reading up to this point and god bless you and your family…
Felipe
Many people believe living in a village deep in the Amazon Jungle is easy – all you need is a hammock and a couple of trees and nature will take care of you. Trapping animals, fishing, collecting fruit, nuts, palm leaves – that’s easy, as long as you have a machete, you’re fine. Medical plants, natural repellents, camouflage from jaguars and other predators, the jungle will offer you everything. So, when we talk about little villages, like the ones where our fly fishing guides come from, there’s an impression it’s a paradise, and for most locals it is. In collecting biographies for our new website, there was a unanimous answer to the question, where do you prefer to live? In the city or in the village? Peace, the abundance of fish, game, wood for building, knowledge of indigenous people, all this is priceless for anyone we’ve come across in Amazonian country. What if that peace is broken? Not just by the expansion of the city and trade, but, let’s say, by a disease? Could you possibly survive with a disabled member of the family in a village in the middle of a jungle, 4 hours away from any small primitive Medical stop and another 20 hours to Manaus and a real medical center on a passenger boat? Amazonian people know how to sort themselves out, but here’s a story of Felipe and his father, the people who inspired our Care&Share Program.