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Seeing Amanda smile is a gift of hope

The campaign on the GoFundMe fundraising platform for the health of the Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz is still open, despite having granted the proposed amount.

Amanda Lemus Ortiz © Facebook/Lara Crofs
Amanda Lemus Ortiz Photo © Facebook/Lara Crofs

Seeing Amanda smile after twenty days is a gift of hope", he said inFacebook the activist Yamilka Lafita, known on social media as Lara Crofs, to release a new update on the health status of the little girl, who suffers from bile duct atresia and has been waiting for a liver transplant for a year.

“The girl spent the night well, resting,” Crofs noted in his report, who also reported that today was a day when they took her blood.

“They are going to meet with the other specialists so that if they obtain positive results, they will discharge him, since they consider that he can be in a clean and safe environment without preferably being inside the hospital, which is a risky place,” he said.

Regarding Amanda's condition, she said that the little girl "is in good spirits, she is active."

He recalled the significance of that state and said that it only “responds to that immense desire to live and to the strength in which we have all united in one way or another to have #SOSAMANDA within our homes.”

On the other hand, he called on the followers of this case to connect at 7:30 p.m. to explain a new idea to help find the best place to do Amanda's transplant.

“Once again, we will all be together, united, with the effort and commitment that each one has, the protagonists of helping our Amanda live,” he added.

Facebook Capture/Lara Crofs

Last Saturday, February 10, the campaign on the fundraising platformGoFundMe for the health of the Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz,exceeded the goal of $20,000. Currently, it is not closed and already reaches $21,426.

Screenshot/GoFundMe

When announcing the news, Crofs noted: “20k ofGoFundMe. 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 along with a photograph in which she appears accompanied byAmanda and her mother, and two more people.

The campaign for Amanda's health gained new momentum at the beginning of this year, even though the request had been going on for months, whenThe little girl's mother apologized for not being able to offer her the medical care and treatment she needs..

"I ask your forgiveness, my daughter, for being born into a poor family, for being the daughter of a worker, for not being the daughter of someone famous and powerful. I ask your forgiveness for not having parents with enough influence to buy you your health, to buy you the food you need, the medicines, the things that a girl like you needs," Mila Ortiz wrote on her networks.

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