Saving a Life (One friend in risk of death)
As some of you know i work as psychologist in different orphanages in Guatemala.
In this time a boy contacted me, he was in one home some years ago, i met him there, then the judged decided to send him back with his mother, who was a drug addict, without the capabilities to take care of him. He was living in a poor area full of gangs.
So he wrote me in facebook asking for help, he told me he was in a gang, he was forced to do horrible things and he was desperated trying to get out out the group, knowing that the other members would go behind him to kill him.
i had my heart broken, I met him when he was 9 years old, today he is almost 18, we used to laugh and play togheter, to share meals and cry when it was necessary.
Today is in risk of death. I cannot judge him, he probably had robbed and do criminal things, but knowing his story, if i would have lived the same things i would be the same or even worse, I can only pray for him and hope there is a solution
Thanks for reading.
How awful to feel so helpless. It is sad how gangsterism ruins the lives of so many people.
Sadly true
Heartbreaking. This 18 year old is in my daily prayers, I will pray for an opportunity for him to break free.
Thanks really appreciate it
Unbelievable sad and so many of them, we can not always help everyone at least you have helped some.