Don Gu speaks:
My name is Gustavo Colorado. I was born in Tumaco, Nariño, a town of African settlement in southwestern Colombia. I grew up in a neighborhood called ‘Avenida la Playa.’ When I was two months old, I got typhoid fever, that is, polio, which affected my right foot. I grew up with my grandmother because my mom left me with her. She was my mom and dad.
Growing up with polio was very difficult because I had to fight it to be able to walk, and there was no doctor to evaluate what disease I had. My grandmother used herbs to cure me, and I asked God to help me walk. I learned to walk late, when I was 16. At this age I started to understand how to reach society without becoming a criminal or part of some criminal gang because I was disabled.
