Little Sakshi’s heart is still beating, blissfully oblivious to the fact that unless her parents can collect R1.2 lakh for a surgery to plug a hole in her heart, she may not live much longer.

Sakshi’s parents Manoj and Dhanalakshmi Acharya are not well off. Manoj works as a security guard and earns R6,400 a month while Dhanalakshmi works in an automobile firm with a salary of R9000. Raising a lakh in short notice is an impossible dream for them.