To Santiago, they go, little girls walking a group of 26 pilgrims made up of five ALS patients, family and friends. Among them is Maty Alvarín. This monfortina wanted to help make the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis the only way it can: accompanying.
CompostELA is not an association, is a group of friends and family who know first-hand what this disease is “, explains Maty while following the indications of the road that will guide them to Santiago. But if you already have to be brave to take five rude chairs and push for kilometers until you reach Obradoiro, the case Maty draws even more attention.
This neighbor of the council of Monforte decided to join together to follow the legacy of Germán Macía, a civil guard Township who died from this disease, still no cure. “I visited his mother, we have a lot of relationship, and she was the one who told me that there was a group of people interested in making the trip to Compostela to focus on the need to shed light on this disease.” Maty kept the chant in her head and when she got into the car on the way home … “I mentioned the idea to my husband … and at the same moment I said: I’m going to do it. I want to help.”
This Monday, September 7, an adventure ends from the place where everything was born “Mamen and Pepe, two of the CompostELA organizers were making the journey and it was in Pedrouzo, where we left today, where we thought that it could be very interesting to bet on this initiative “. A year later, they close a “wonderful” experience that they hope to repeat.
These days he is left with the smile of the five people affected by ALS who meet their goal: Reaching Santiago. “There are 26 pilgrims who belong to different places, the Canary Islands, Galicia, Madrid, Barcelona … all united by the same thing, to publicize amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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