(Nov. 24) -- A Venezuelan boy with disfiguring facial tumors has received reconstructive surgery thanks to an organization in New Hampshire.
Alejandro Perez, 14, endured ridicule from other children and adults in his hometown and even avoided school, TV station WMUR reported.
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But a charity called Nobody's Child in Windham, N.H., arranged for Alejandro and his mother to fly to the United States, where surgeons in Massachusetts removed part of the tumor for free.
"If they need help and if they're in dire straits and they're brought to our attention, then we do what we can when we can," Elaine MacEwen, executive director of Nobody's Child, told WMUR.
Through an interpreter, Alejandro's mother, Maria Perez Yoco, said she hopes her son can have a new life now.
