Micaela Camarasa
07/26/2021 18:21
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 07/26/2021 6:27 PM
Isaías is one year old, lives in Lomas de Zamora, and is at the age when children start walking.
For him it will be more difficult, although not impossible, but he needs help.
Before his birth, he was diagnosed with
hypoglossia-hypodactyly
syndrome
, a rare disease that causes malformations and problems in the limbs.
"Our son is missing
half of his left arm
,
his right hand is in the shape of a pincer
, and
his left foot
is missing
," says Lucas Arévalo, the boy's father
“He requires three prostheses that allow him to walk and move on his own.
Its total value is 3
60 thousand pesos
.
Approximately, since they are priced in dollars and each time the dollar increases, the price of prostheses rises ”, he explains.
Isaías Arévalo with his mother, father and sister.
They are from Lomas de Zamora.
Lucas is currently looking for work since he is unemployed and unable to pay for the prosthetics that Isaías needs.
Faced with the difficulty of accessing them, Noelia López, the child's mother, comments that they decided to carry out different undertakings and solidarity collections.
From raffles to the sale of homemade food.
“
We were making chicken and meat empanadas
, both baked and fried.
The dozen for $ 550.
We also eventually cook donuts, $ 200 a dozen, "he says, adding that in the last few weeks they decided to set up a Facebook page to generate more visibility and obtain greater collaboration. There are details of a bank account exclusively dedicated to donations for Isaías.
They emphasize that the neighbors have behaved in solidarity and made contributions by buying raffles and in fact, as they said, there is
a neighborhood soccer team that held a championship to benefit
the cause.
From everything they have done, they have obtained a total of 50 thousand pesos: "We know that we still have a long way to go to reach the total we need," they say.
Isaías Arevalo.
“We received many calls from leaders of various political parties who wanted to cooperate but for the moment it came to nothing.
There is no news, ”says Lucas.
And they emphasize that they have a lot of urgency to get the prostheses since they want their child to start walking like any one-year-old would.
The boy's father says that so far they have not received any kind of state aid.
“My lady does not receive anything, neither allowance, nor her pension.
Nothing at all, ”he says.
Isaías does not yet have a disability certificate.
"It took them three months to deliver Isa's document and we still couldn't process it," says Arévalo.
Isaías Arévalo was diagnosed with hypoglossia-hypodactyly syndrome.
In the midst of the difficult economic situation they are going through, Lucas is looking for a job and Noelia continues to make meals that she sells in the neighborhood, plus the sale of raffles, to gradually get what they need.
At this moment they are missing $ 310 thousand.
To collaborate with Isaías and his family, Lucas opened a bank account (exclusively enabled for the deposit of donations (CBU 0000003100071031876085 in the name of Arévalo Lucas Sebastián, contact + 54-911-5349-1138).
"That people contribute gratifies us a lot and we really value it very much because we are very far from getting the money by our own means," he concludes in dialogue with
Clarín
.