
Esther wants to be a teacher when she grows up. More than going to school, she loves teaching the children in the neighborhood who flock to her house to clear their doubts. Once every 21 days, Esther starts having shooting pains in her body and she is too sick to even eat or move and needs a blood transfusion. The only cure is an expensive procedure her parents can't afford.Esther at the hospital with her fatherRegular blood transfusions are damaging Esther's organsEsther's father David is a pastor of the church in Jammulapalem – a small village near Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Esther is his first child and they found out she had Thalassemia Major when she was just 6-months-old. The nature of the disease at first left them shattered. Esther at the hospital“For at least a year after she was diagnosed – we were very upset. But with the doctor's support and counselling, we were able to accept it. Now, she needs blood once in three days and it is damaging her body. The doctor says we n
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