“I’ve already lived my life. Now she’s the most important—her health and her future.”
These are the first words we hear from Remon when we ask what he needs most. He doesn’t ask for medicine for himself, even though without it he won’t survive. He doesn’t mention food, even though an empty table is a common sight in his home. He speaks about his daughter.
Remon is 63, but illness and worry have etched a map of a life far heavier than any one person should bear. His suffering is marked by serious illnesses: diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart that barely beats after major surgery. Add diabetic foot, and a man who once drove thousands of kilometers is now a prisoner of his own home and frailty.
Yet the true source of his pain is not his failing body. It is helplessness. His 20-year-old daughter, his pride and his reason to keep going, is just finishing high school. She stands at the threshold of adulthood, but her start in life is shadowed by suffering. Born with a cleft lip, she had one surgery as a child, but now needs another to live normally and face the future without fear. The cost of the operation is unimaginable for the family. For a father, there is no greater pain than feeling powerless in the face of his child’s dreams.
The house they live in is rented. Remon’s wife works for a convent, providing the only source of income. Altogether, they have $200 a month. After paying $150 rent, only $50 remains for food, medicine, electricity, and everything else. Survival would be impossible without the help of kind people and the support we provide.
Thanks to you, Remon can regularly receive a supply of medicine for his heart, diabetes, and high blood pressure, along with a food package. These are the steps that allow him to survive physically. But joining Remon’s family means something more. It lifts an unimaginable weight of fear from his shoulders and promises that his heart, which fights so bravely, can beat a little more peacefully.