Helping Hands for Winarni

Social media showed its true power in the act of solidarity for 2.5-year-old Achmad Fariz Taufik, the son of former national weightlifter Winarni, 42, who was born with esophageal atresia.

Winarni was overcome with emotion when she learned that so many people want to help her son, Fariz, who was born with a congenitally interrupted esophagus that required expensive surgery to correct.

“Three days ago, I could not even buy milk for Fariz. I had planned to sell my house to get the money for his surgery. It’s just so sudden that I found out that so many people want to help me and my son to get his operation as soon as possible,” she said on Saturday (28/7/2018).