The Casa de Acogida is clearly a very important help for patients and families coming from the regions. Having a place to come to that is clean, safe and welcoming is invaluable. The moms and dads who have stayed at the house always tell me that this place is very helpful for them. Another key aspect is that through living together they can share experiences, knowledge and mutual support. That is very important: to realize that you are not alone. Everyone accompanies each other.

Angela is the mother of a twelve year old girl with a kidney transplant, the result of a urinary tract infection that was not treated in time. Through her experience we can see that some chronic kidney diseases can be avoided and her testimony is an alert to mothers and fathers of children who have had a urinary infection, regular fevers, malaise, loss of appetite and other symptoms.

Jacqueline is Moisés' mother and every day she has to prepare her son's and her own peritoneal dialysis. Both are on the waiting list to receive a kidney. From Coyhaique they have traveled to Santiago due to the lack of specialists in the regions and from our shelter she has had the generosity to share her story and strength, to tell our community that it is possible and that a mother's love can achieve everything.

The main beach resort of the Maule Region was the site of a medical operation that took place between January 18 and 21 and which benefited pediatric patients whose pathology could be complicated if they were not operated on.

María Teresa Aránguiz is assistant director of the Social Area of the Children's Renal Corporation MATER and has been working in the Corporation for more than 15 years. After so much time and experience, it is very difficult for her to summarize the meaning on a personal level, but she highlights the value of the Corporation's Shelter House as a space to accompany different families in the process of growth of their sons and daughters living with a chronic disease.