Helping Kids in Ecuador
- Sarah Canez
- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min read
“Helping Kids in Ecuador” has supported over 650 children in need all over Ecuador, providing medical help, hope, and healing to children in need since the start of the group in Salinas in 2011.
Mary and Tod Freeman were in Salinas when they saw a jar with a few coins in a small café that had a sign saying “Please help”. An expat had the idea to try to collect some donations at the cash register for a little girl who needed a very complicated bowel surgery. Her mother, a waitress in the café, did not have the money or the knowledge of how to get this surgery for her daughter. The Freemans thought, well, we can try to do better than that! With the help of a few other expats they held a fundraiser, collected the money, found a surgeon, and contacted a hospital that would do the surgery at a discounted price. The precious little girl received her life-changing surgery. She could now live a normal life and grow up to be a successful young lady.
Mary and Tod thought that many more children must be out there who need medical care in Ecuador, but don’t have the resources to find it.
