After pandemic pause, one woman's crusade for kids resumes

Baraka Cosmas, 12, has a cookie and relaxes with Montanti, founder and director at The Global Medical Relief Fund, left, after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. Photos: AP

After more than two decades beating the odds to obtain medical care for children injured in war and crises around the world, Elissa Montanti’s Global Medical Relief Fund was thwarted by Covid-19.

The Dare to Dream House, the typically bustling boarding house her nonprofit maintains a few doors down from her Staten Island home, New York in the United States, fell silent.