III FWB MEETING: THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN MISSION Help us spread the word. Share this story! Some choices we make during life are not choices at all, they are missions we have been entrusted with and from which we cannot turn our backs or close our eyes. Aline Teixeira da Silva known this very well from the day she met the first child with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Natália, a four-year-old girl, suffered with the consequences of the disease until then unknown to Aline and the people of Bahia Backlands. The disease is a deficiency in the connective tissue of the skin. “The child does not produce collagen and does not accept replacement; the marrow comes with this deficiency in the gene. So, EB is a disease that leaves the skin loose”, explains Aline, who continues, “besides the skin being sensitive on the outside, people who suffer from EB have injuries on the inside making the whole digestive system deficient.” Wanting to know Natália’s story, Aline, the Bahian from Caculé, dived deep into her heart’s calling and began her journey for improving the quality of life for these children. “When I started a fundraising campaign in her favor, many people started coming to me asking for help, and that’s when I founded Garden of Butterflies,” she says.