From Arizona-
I was holding it together fairly well at St. Andrew's Children's Clinic on Thursday until I saw the walker next to the wall.
It looked just like any walker you'd find in Green Valley, only this one was built for a 3 year old.
That's when it hit me hard and I had to take a minute to get my head back in the game.
St. Andrew's monthly clinic in Nogales gives birth to lots of stories worthy of tears. But on clinic day, there's just no time to get caught up in it all.
There's work to be done, and lots of it.
St. Andrew's has been around in one form or another for about 40 years. In 1973, a group of Mexican women across the border in Nogales were desperate to find help for their disabled children. Their efforts, which eventually shifted north to St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Arizona, have served thousands of northern Mexico's neediest children.
Every month, about 250 kids with everything from spina bifida to blindness, cerebral palsy and prosthetic limbs, come to the free clinic for help.
They share at least three realities: They come from dirt-poor families; they have severe disabilities; and they live in a nation that either can't or won't help them.
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