you'll meet carmen cortez, the woman who created a home away from home for families living with a medical >> he was born with a bad deformation. >> a deformed hand? >> yeah. >> and later on, you'll meet a man rescuing children who are literally thrown away or even attacked just because they were born with disabilities. what is her name? >> lucia. >> lucia. and lucia's father tried to kill her? >> yeah, he tried to kill her, but she's already healed. ♪ >> welcome back to our program on vida usa, a bay area nonprofit helping millions of people in some of the poorest countries in the world. it ships surplus medical supplies and medicine overseas. those are supplies that would have ended up in our landfills. the co-founder of vida was born in peru and lives in the bay area. the charity is based in emeryville and is marking 25 years of service. vida usa invited me to travel with them to see where those supplies are going -- to hospitals and programs helping families with disabled children. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> carmen cortez founded peru niñez in lima to help families with disabled childr