Maria Jaine Souza da Silva, born in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, is now 12 years old, daughter of Maria Lucilene Pereira de Souza and Daci Lopes da Silva.
In March, 2003, I became acquainted with this child when I was looking for challenged children. Someone told me that on a certain street there was an exceptional child and I went there. When I arrived I looked and saw the child lying in the middle of the house and the mother in the washroom. I called her and asked if I could speak with her. She said that I could. I explained the work of the project and she received me very well.
She began to speak about Jaine who is an exceptional child but is very intelligent because everything that people speak she plays attention and recognizes a person very quickly.
When I began to do physical therapy it was very difficult. When I arrived there the child was lying all-alone in the middle of the house, wet with urine, disheveled and abandoned. It seems that she did not serve for anything except to bother the mother. The mother herself was not there when I arrived. Many days she did not even give me a greeting. When I entered and began my work, she remained in the washroom washing clothes. At times I became very sad with everything that was happening with that child, lying in the middle of the house, full of lice and rash, wet with urine and all dirty. The mother never gave her a bath before I came to do physical therapy. It was when Valderi, who is the coordinator of the project, began to make visits and I began to win her confidence, that things became a little better. Today they all treat me very well, thanks be to God, but the child still is not treated as she should be but I have already succeeded in many things.
When Jaine sees me she laughs a lot, she knows me by walk when I come down the hill and when she hears me she laughs.
When I began - initially - it was much work and little progress because she was already older but I continued. I remember when I took her hand for the first time, I almost died of fear because she became frightened and almost fainted. When I got up to leave, she began to cry without stopping and it was necessary for me to secretly leave the house.
Today she has already conquered various movements that she did not have - such as raising her arms and opening her hands.
When I say "I'm leaving", she raises her arms and turns on her side but she does not speak. She does speak with her eyes as someone who is very content and this makes me very happy. I know that it is a fruit of my work and that she is progressing. I thank all those who help me for this is very gratifying for all of us.
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