Help a young person pay for their trip to receive surgery!

Alejandro cedeño Start Date: Nov 16, 2025 - End Date: Dec 15, 2025
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My Travel Story

by: Alejandro cedeño Start Date: Nov 16, 2025 - End Date: Dec 15, 2025
For years I’ve lived with a feeling I never wanted to accept: watching my sight slowly fade and seeing how my life changes with it. The strabismus began affecting me in 2018—silent, almost invisible at first—but over time it became a shadow that follows me everywhere I go. My vision doubles when I try to look far away, it blurs when I read, my eyes burn and hurt, and that mix of exhaustion and frustration has become part of my routine.

The teasing, the strange looks, the comments… all of that taught me to lower my head, to avoid photos, to stop looking in the mirror because I no longer recognize the person standing there. During the pandemic, I would lie in bed because my insecurity was stronger than any desire to do anything; I hid even from myself.

My parents, humble workers, have done what they can, but we are a poor Ecuadorian family, and this surgery is simply out of their reach. I can’t ask them for something I know they can’t give, even though each day my eyesight gets a little worse.

Today, I can’t take pictures with my friends like people my age do. I can’t walk calmly reading signs or boards. I can’t look at my own face without feeling sad. Even renewing my ID has become a fear: I don’t want to see myself like this in a document that will follow me for years.

And this is my last year of high school… it should be a happy time, full of memories and photos, but all I can think about is how I’ll appear with my gaze drifting, insecure, trying to hide.

All I want is to smile, to appear in my graduation photos without fear, to feel normal for once. The surgery I need could give me more than vision: it could give me peace, confidence, and the chance to live without this burden I’ve carried since 2018.

That’s why I’m asking for help. Any contribution, even the smallest one, would be an enormous gift—an opportunity to end this year seeing clearly and start the next without insecurities.

Thank you for reading and for any gesture that brings me closer to recovering my sight and the confidence I’ve slowly lost over time.

PAYPAL:
Alejandro Moises Cedeño Mero”**
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    Alejandro
    Hello, my name is Alejandro Moisés Cedeño Mero, and I am from Ecuador. Since 2018, I have been living with strabismus, a condition that has gradually affected my vision and, with it, many aspects of my daily life. Looking far distances is difficult, reading causes pain and strain in my eyes, and every reflection in the mirror reminds me of the insecurity I feel.
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