Global Medical Relief Fund: One child at a time
How one Staten Island woman has changed over 100 young lives
Montanti, who is single, has been doing this for nearly 15 years. “My charity is very personal. It becomes a global family. All these children.I say ‘my children’ so often. Because I feel that that they are. I love all of them,” she tells Pelley.
One of those children is nine-yr.old Wa’ad, an Iraqi boy maimed and disfigured by a bomb. The long process organized by Montanti entailed artificial limbs and a sophisticated plastic surgery regimen conducted by Alizadeh that took months. In the end, a little boy could play soccer again with a normal looking smile on his face. And Wa’ad wasn’t the only one smiling. “I do this probably for the most selfish reason, which is that it feels good,” says Alizadeh.
