“A farmer only sees loss all his life. While my son is in the hospital with cancer and I am in another hospital looking after my father, rain has destroyed my crops. I have no choice but to save them both, but with what?.” - Srinivas, Hema Srinivas' father.5-year-old Hema Srinivas' parents wanted to send him to school this year. Instead, he is in the hospital, fighting a deadly form of blood cancer. His treatment has already been delayed by months and he needs intensive chemotherapy to beat cancer. His parents are daily-wage workers who face a terrible reality – saving their son through crippling poverty. Hema was looking forward to school – but cancer became his futureBecause his mother was pregnant with his sister last year, she decided to send him to the Anganwadi center in their village, KB Palem, instead of the school. Barely six months in, he became very sick with fever. When the fever did not go away for over a month, his parents decided to take him to a doctor in th
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