In a small corner of Jaipur, Manju and Sonu wake up every morning and go out as waste pickers, collecting, sorting, and selling whatever they can find just to feed their family. It is hard, exhausting work. But they do it every single day without complaint.
Nothing, however, prepared them for what they are facing today.
Their one year old daughter Saniya should be taking her first steps right now. She should be laughing, pulling herself up on furniture, and filling their small home with the noise only a toddler can make. Instead, she is lying in the NICU at DMICC Hospital in Jaipur, fighting for every single breath.
What started as measles quickly became something far more dangerous. Saniya is now battling five serious conditions at the same time, pneumonia, sepsis, respiratory failure, anemia, and severe acute malnutrition. Her tiny lungs are struggling. Her body has no reserves left to fight back. Every breath she takes is a battle she has to win on her own, with machines helping her along the way.
But she has not given up. And neither have her parents.
Manju and Sonu have already spent over Rs 1 lakh on Saniya's treatment. For a family that earns by the day, that is a sum that required selling everything they had and borrowing from everyone they know. There is nothing left. No savings. No backup. No one else to turn to.
Every day, they stand outside the NICU, watching through a window, praying that today is the day their daughter turns a corner. They are not asking for much. They are simply asking for more time, more days of treatment, more medicines, more of a chance.
Saniya is one year old. She has barely seen the world. She deserves to grow up, to run, to go to school, and to have a life full of the ordinary moments her parents dreamed of when she was born.
Your contribution, however small, goes directly toward her NICU care, medicines, and the treatment days still ahead of her. Please donate and share her story. Every rupee brings Saniya one breath closer to coming home.
