Shalini Yadav
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Shalini Yadav, 16, described as being like a human snake, suffers from a rare inflammatory skin disease called Erythroderma or ‘red man syndrome’.
It causes the skin over almost the entire body to become scaly and flake off.
The Indian teenager has to soak her body in water every hour and smear herself with lotion every three hours to stop her skin from hardening and seizing up, and has shed her skin every 45 days since she was born.
She has now been thrown out of school because fellow pupils are frightened by her strange appearance. Shalini said: “I wanted to study but they threw me out of school as the children would get scared by seeing my face.
“Everybody in the family is suffering because of my medical condition. But what is my fault? What sin did I commit to be cursed with such a disease. I want to live. Please help me, if you can.” Shalini’s desperate parents are so poor they are struggling to afford the moisturiser to help their daughter while they try to provide food for eight people, including her grandparents. I am going to take a year off work, at my own expense to help her, I have a vietnamese wife and have seen first hand how being sick and poor suffer because they can't even afford the basic medicine or the cost of going to see a doctor.
So please give as much or as little to help this poor girl and her family to have a better life.
It causes the skin over almost the entire body to become scaly and flake off.
The Indian teenager has to soak her body in water every hour and smear herself with lotion every three hours to stop her skin from hardening and seizing up, and has shed her skin every 45 days since she was born.
She has now been thrown out of school because fellow pupils are frightened by her strange appearance. Shalini said: “I wanted to study but they threw me out of school as the children would get scared by seeing my face.
“Everybody in the family is suffering because of my medical condition. But what is my fault? What sin did I commit to be cursed with such a disease. I want to live. Please help me, if you can.” Shalini’s desperate parents are so poor they are struggling to afford the moisturiser to help their daughter while they try to provide food for eight people, including her grandparents. I am going to take a year off work, at my own expense to help her, I have a vietnamese wife and have seen first hand how being sick and poor suffer because they can't even afford the basic medicine or the cost of going to see a doctor.
So please give as much or as little to help this poor girl and her family to have a better life.
Organizer
john mandryk
Organizer