Help 6-year-old Mia get a liver transplant

Mia was four months old when doctors in Cebu found the reason her skin would not lose its yellow tint: biliary atresia, a blockage of the bile ducts that slowly scars the liver. She is six now, sharp and funny and small for her age, and her doctors say the window for a living-donor transplant is this year.

Her father drives a tricycle; her mother takes in laundry and keeps a folder of every receipt, lab result, and the official hospital abstract - all of which Sagip's reviewer has seen. PhilHealth and a government guarantee letter cover part of the operation, but the family's share of the surgery, medication, and a months-long stay near the hospital comes to far more than they can raise alone.

Every release from this campaign goes through a second verification against the hospital's billing statements before a single dollar moves.