The Story of Wilmer Arias

Wilmer Arias was shot through the neck in a rural and impoverished area of northern Guatemala when he was 9 years old. He wandered away from his grandparents house, where he lived with his brother and sister, to chase after a deer. A hunter’s bullet intended for the deer, struck Wilmer instead. He spent two and a half months in a coma in a hospital in Guatemala city, and woke up in a world unfamiliar to the one he had known; now paralyzed from the waist down. Abandoned by his moth...