Meet Thavy, a 30-year-old woman from Cambodia. For the last five years Thavy has lived with chronic otitis media. As our medical partner, Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC), explains, “Thavy has had both of her eardrums perforated.” A perforated eardrum means that there is a hole in the eardrum caused by infection or injury. As a result of living for so long with a perforation, Thavy has constant discharge from her ear and cannot hear well. CSC shares, “Thavy lives alone usually, but now she lives with her mother. She spends most of the day helping her mom cook and clean. She had bought some medications from the pharmacy but they did her no good.” Thavy needs a myringoplasty—a surgical procedure in which skin from another part of the ear is used to patch the eardrum. With $399 in funding, she will receive the surgery she needs to stop the discharge from her ear and restore her hearing.

Jessie is a brave two-year-old guy who lives with his parents and his three siblings in a rural part of the Central Philippines. His father is a hardworking farmer who makes about $25 a month to support his family. When Jessie was born, he endured a series of operations to temporarily fix a congenital defect that prevented him from passing stool properly. The operations may have saved his life, but they also wiped out his parents' savings and did not permanently solve the problem. Now, Jessie is in constant pain and must wear a colostomy bag. But Jessie is a resilient kid, and despite extreme discomfort as a result of his condition, he still loves to sing, dance, and play with his siblings. For $985, Jessie can receive surgery to have his large intestinal hernia repaired and his colostomy closed. “This surgery means everything to us because we can’t ignore or dare to see our son in pain" said Jessie's parents. "I believe after the surgery, my child will live normally like his other siblings and other children, free from pain.” Let's fund Jessie’s surgery so he can live his life to the fullest!