03/27/09
Less than a month from today, a little boy from Malawi with a hole in his heart will step off a plane at O'Hare to have life-altering surgery. It's the journey of his lifetime. A journey you, the kind readers of the Chicago Sun-Times, made possible. Vasco Sylvester, the 10-year-old AIDS orphan I met in Blantyre, Malawi, in 2007, is set to arrive in Chicago on April 25 to undergo surgery to repair a heart defect he has had since birth.
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