It all started with a red birthmark on his forehead when he was only 2 years old. He then had to be hospitalized several times due to fever and eye problems that never healed.
Salvador "Buddy" Cabural Jr. did not know that he had arteriovenous malformation, a mostly congenital condition that involves the central nervous system that causes a deformity that worsens over time.
Though treatment is available for this disease, the lack of funds prevented the boy's family to find a vascular surgeon who can help them and his condition has rapidly worsened.
He is now 27 years old and despite above average intelligence, he could not hold a job due to muscle weakness, vertigo, speech and memory difficulties. To survive, this young man with a positive disposition, made coin banks and distributed these in shops.
As he travels using public transport, he painfully has to deal with people's shocked and fearful reactions. Despite it being a non-communicable disease, people cringe and are moved to pity.
Friends are making a desperate search across the world via internet to find a vascular surgeon willing to perform the operation while Buddy waits and hopes for a miracle.