Social work

Today we serve the breakfast for the kids. It was milk chocolate and cookies. When we give the breakfast, people in the room look at you smiling and saying “thank you so much”. They really appreciate little things that you do for them.

Brenda (the responsible of this area) presented us some mothers, so we started to talk with them about their sons.

I realized that the mothers and fathers who go to the chemotherapy come from Quevedo, Manabí, Santo Domingo and other provinces. And they don’t have enough money to stay in Guayaquil, so their just come for the chemotherapy and then, leave on buses.

They also, tell us how their sons are changing because of the chemotherapy. Is not just hair loss, is a lot of alterations, like change of humor, tiredness, depression, sadness, loneliness, fear, feeling of abandonment and they also can have learning problems.

Of course that these symptoms are present in some children, in others not too much. It depends of the kid. Every kid is a particular case.

Then, we danced a bit with kids. At first they didn’t want to, but slowly, they started to stand up and move. They had a lot of fun.