As she seeks to raise funds to offset the cost of a needed surgery, a young woman is clinging to hopes that she will one day realise her childhood dream of becoming an environmentalist and also be able to once again play the sports she was so active in before cancer began ravaging her body.
Forced to leave her job at the Guyana Revenue Authority, take leave of absence from the University of Guyana where she was pursuing an Environmental Studies degree, and give up all active participation in the sports she was involved in, Candacey Glen, 24, of the West Bank of Demerara, says the past year saw her life coming to crashing halt.