I volunteer with a mission in the central Philippines and travel there       every year.  My family sponsors a family of 6 and co-sponsors another    family there.  I am an EMT in New York with our volunteer Fire Deparment.  I met Thalia   in our clinic there and she was suffering from Severe   Asthma as I did at that age.       I know it is hard to smile when     you can't   breathe. 

She lives in a very poor community and her mother, who  volunteers      with our mission, is a single mother, trying to raise 2 girls on $22 a  month.

I want to help Thalia smile again.  Her family needs electricity, a fan to move the hot air around and a small refrigerator for the goat's milk she has to drink- (allergy to cow's milk- so powdered milk won't work).

Electricity would also allow her mother to borrow a nebulizer machine for her asthma treatments.

When I told her mother I would try to help her smile, her mother called me her Guardian Angel.  I told Thalia I would try to find many other       Guardian Angels here.