Meet Eyuccabeth, a 17-year-old girl living in Kenya. Eyuccabeth is the fourth child in her family. Her father died 10 years ago and her mother works temporary jobs in order to take care of the family. "I want to work hard and be able to take care of my mother just like she has taken care of us," says Eyuccabeth. Our medical partner describes Eyuccabeth as a happy, kind-hearted and joyous girl. Unfortunately, she has chronic osteomyelitis, a bone infection, in her right leg. This condition causes her leg to swell and if she doesn't receive surgery, her leg may need to be amputated. For $1,200, we can help Eyuccabeth receive a sequestrectomy, a separation of dead bone from healthy bone, which will allow her to walk normally again. With this surgery, Eyuccabeth will be able to live an active life and help support her family like she wants to.

Just before Lainess began walking, she was diagnosed with Blount’s disease, a leg deformity which causes pain when walking, imbalance, limping, and extra stress on her leg joints. "There's a limit to how far she can walk and an obvious limitation on mobility," staff at our medical partner CURE International say, "but one of the biggest impacts is the negative attention she receives because of it." Despite teasing from peers, Lainess “hasn’t let the jokes deter her from staying enrolled in school.” Lainess’s mother “desperately wants her daughter to be normal” and “feels hurt when Lainess tells her about the names that she is called.” Lainess hopes to become a nurse when she finishes school. For $1,000, we can help make that happen by funding surgery to fix her tibia and helping her complete her education.