In 2007, Carlos and Aline Pereira welcomed their daughter, Clara, into the world in Recife, Brazil, but their world would never be the same. “The day my daughter was born, a medical mistake induced her with cerebral palsy,” Carlos says. “She wouldn’t walk or speak. From the moment I found out, I started to look for solutions to help her.” He discovered stem cell treatment, which at that time was impossible to access in Brazil.
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