We have just finished our second short doco and yes we are still in Pisco! 🙂
I’m so pleased we managed to pull this one together! It means a lot to us and all the volunteers too! It wasn’t the simplest of documentaries to make and completly different to the last.
UPDATE: since this video had been released, enough funding had been raised to pay for baby Norma operations. They still need time for the baby to grow a bit more and get stronger before she can undergo surgery.
Its a unique story and we have been very fortunate to have a very cool and committed volunteer, Naveen from Pisco Sin Fronteras (PSF) to help us out and be our protagonist in the film. He is very close with this particular family, knows their story very well and in particular has a bond with their youngest child, baby Norma. This family is one of the many families Pisco Sin Fronteras have helped after the fatal destruction caused by the earthquake in 2007, however this story goes a little further…
Baby Norma, is a gorgeous 8months old baby. She’s a special little girl and so good, hardly ever cries and is totally fascinated by the world around her. Unfortunately.. and here’s the sad side.. she was born with an imperforate anus, which means she was born with a congenital (present from birth) defect in which the opening to the anus is missing or blocked and in this case she has two very sore and painful open wounds on her belly where she excretes feces – i’d never heard of this disease until now and is a birth defect that is relatively common and occurs in about 1 out of 5,000 infants. (please click here to get a better explanation of the diagnosis.
Not only this but she was recently also diagnosed with down syndrome.
Baby Norma is in critical need of surgery and the family simply are unable to afford the procedure for her.. Naveen has been fund-raising and it will literally save her life! This film is to show her situation and to get the word out to see if we can all pull together and get her the surgery she desperately needs.
So, just by posting this to all your friends, and by donating what little you can afford, you will be contributing to help save a beautiful little girl that deserves a second chance.
Take some time after the video and look around to what you have.. how fortunate you are.. life is short guys and its not often we get to give and contribute to help such a cause. We all benefit from having our lives in the western world and its not until we see something like this, that were reminded of how lucky we are, no matter how sh*tty our day was..
Enough of me talking, bums on seats and click below (for the version with ITALIAN subtitles see at the bottom of the page):