Devastated by war, kids find healing


Montanti, founder of the Global Medical Relief Fund, stands outside one of her homes in the Staten Island borough of New York in the United States. - Reuters

ELISSA Montanti can rattle off the stories without hesitation of the hundreds of wounded children who have come through the doors of her small New York charity to get medical help.

Marci, a five-year-old from Afghanistan, was shot in the face in a Taliban ambush. She lost her eye, and her father died trying to shield her.

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