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Elise Montanti, founder and director of the Global Medical Relief Fund, greets Mwigulu Matonange along with three other albino children from Tanzania as they arrive at JFK International Airport, Friday, May 28, 2021, in New York. The pandemic put a hold on international travel, and on the services Montanti has facilitated for the more than 450 kids who have passed through her care. As restrictions have begun lifting across the country, the Staten Island woman is bringing her charity back to life.
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By JOHN MINCHILLO
Associated Press Jul 7, 2021
Baraka Cosmas, 12, has a cookie and relaxes with Montanti, founder and director at The Global Medical Relief Fund, left, after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. Photos: AP
After more than two decades beating the odds to obtain medical care for children injured in war and crises around the world, Elissa Montanti’s Global Medical Relief Fund was thwarted by Covid-19.
The Dare to Dream House, the typically bustling boarding house her nonprofit maintains a few doors down from her Staten Island home, New York in the United States, fell silent. I was in a dark unknown,” she said. My fear was, my God, what’s going to happen to the charity? These poor kids, are they going to have no place to come and be helped to get arms, or legs to walk?”
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15 Photos Elise Montanti, founder and director of the Global Medical Relief Fund, greets Mwigulu Matonange along with three other albino children from Tanzania as they arrive at JFK International Airport, Friday, May 28, 2021, in New York. The pandemic put a hold on international travel, and on the services Montanti has facilitated for the more than 450 kids who have passed through her care. As restrictions have begun lifting across the country, the Staten Island woman is bringing her charity back to life. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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