Mexico

5-year-old, Iker, was born with an umbilical hernia. At first it didn’t seem to bother the boy. But as he got older, he said the pain became unbearable especially after he ran or played hard. “My tummy hurt a lot!” he said. “I told my mom to take me to the doctor.”

“Instead of getting smaller, the hernia grew bigger,” noted Ana, his mother. “I was afraid it might burst, and he would get a major infection.”

As a single parent, Ana knew she would never be able to afford paying for surgery to repair the hernia. “To pay for it I would have to leave the country to work,” she said. “And Iker said, ‘Mom please don't leave me alone for a long time.’”

Then Ana heard about Operation Blessing's life changing surgery program. “I learned that people who don't even know us help people to re

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