The campaign on the fundraising platform GoFundMe for the health of the Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz, who suffers from bile duct atresia and has been waiting for a liver transplant for a year, surpassed the goal of $20,000.
Yamilka Lafita - known on social networks as Lara Crofs - announced the news through her Facebook account, from where she has continuously monitored the development of little Amanda.
“20k del GoFundMe. I don't even explain to you the joy we have. "I can't find words to describe the emotion, what we feel," she wrote alongside a photograph in which she appears accompanied by Amanda and her mother, and two other people.
“What else can I say! Thank you very much, God Bless you!” said the activist.
“The scream of a two-year-old girl trying to survive was so great and heartbreaking that it made a community of Cubans, who do not even know each other, come together in these last 19 days to scream,” he concluded his text.
Although GoFundMe This achievement was made, it is also worth highlighting that fundraising was also being done from Cuba in CUP and MLC cards, and even a Cuban walked the streets of Havana looking for donations from other people.
The Cuban identified on Facebook as Christian Generosity Jerusalem He shared a video on his profile where he is seen visit a clothing and shoe market in Havana to contribute to fundraising for the case of the girl Amanda.
“Yesterday in this little box, on Monte Street, I was able to raise 25,088 (Cuban) pesos,” the man explained to one of the vendors, with the aim of giving significance to the action. A day later, his collection reached 36,460 CUP in the four days he had visited various places in Havana..
In a video published weeks before, The girl's mother, Milagros Ortiz, thanked the people who have helped so that little Amanda can receive the treatment she needs..
“I want to thank all those people who are helping me, who are supporting me in this cause for my daughter. To all the help they have given me of any kind, those people who have donated things for her, things for us, her parents, food, fundraising,” said the woman, visibly moved.
He also added that it has given them a lot of hope. “This has been incredible,” he said, while asking that the contribution be continued to achieve the long-awaited transplant that his daughter demands.
“To all those people who can help me even with a weight, let them continue doing so because every day we are closer to saving the life of the girl who, thank God, has remained stable despite everything, because she is a warrior.” , because she really wants to live and because she is a very strong girl,” the mother added in a serene and hopeful tone.
This Saturday you can feel proud that the Cuban community abroad did not let you down, nor have all those who from Cuba have contributed to the cause, both with money, with dissemination, and with the continuous messages of encouragement that They hope that the girl Amanda continues enjoying life.
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