Spesihle
Age: 8
Location: South Africa
Spesihle was born with a cleft lip and palate as well as a facial cleft. He had surgery right after he was born to fix part of his facial cleft. While his family was told he would need follow up surgeries they were not
Dorcas
Age: 33
Location: Dominican republic of Congo
Dorcas was born with this condition, which continued to grow over the years. She had an unsuccessful surgery when she was three years old, which was said to have failed because of her young age. She has four siblings from her mother’s
Jehad
Age: 3
Location: Philippines
This family has been looking for help since Jehad’s birth and travelled 6 hours by bus to our medical project in Davao City in March 2012. While the team at our Care Centre in Davao desperately wanted to help him and has capacity to treat
Amba
Age 21
Location: Dominican Republic of Congo
This tumor started developing in 2008, when she was just 15. It started as a small lump inside the nose and has continuously grown ever since, now nearly the size of her head. She’s in a lot of pain, is not able
Aiysha
Location: Somalia
Age: 13 months
Patient’s Background Story:
This family has been looking for help since Aisha’s birth. They have spent so much money going back and forth to Kenya where they approached several people and none could help. Because she is from Somalia many countries are not interested