Meet Lwin, a 42-year-old father from Burma who has kidney stones. “Lwin currently experiences back pain, abdominal pain, and stomach pain. Sometimes he gets dizzy and feels weak and he also has low blood pressure,” reports our medical partner, Burma Border Projects (BBP). When Lwin previously went to the hospital, he was misdiagnosed and the kidney stones remained. It wasn't until months later that he received the correct diagnosis. “Lwin has five children and four of them are studying. Due to his illness, he cannot support his children and cannot provide any income for the family. His family has to rely on selling ducks and chickens,” continues BBP. “After his treatment, Lwin wants to go back to his normal life, return to work, and take care of his family.” Lwin aspires for all of his children to obtain an education. For $1500, we can fund surgery to remove Lwin’s kidney stones and have him return to his family healthy and able to work. “Lwin will be able to live pain free and return to work, allowing him to focus on his family’s welfare,” says BBP. “It will also restore his dignity which he feels like he has lost over the last year.”

Masumbuko is a one-month-old boy from Tanzania, and the youngest of nine children.He has a lesion on his back which is leaking cerebral spinal fluid. The doctors who submitted his profile to Watsi write, "If not treated, the lesion will soon cause sepsis, endangering Masumbuko’s life.” “He was conceived unexpectedly and Masumbuko’s mother had a difficult pregnancy," his doctors continue. "She was often sick and worried because she thought she was too old to be giving birth.” His parents are small-scale farmers with a large family to look after. Their income from farming is not enough to cover the cost of their family’s daily needs as well as the medical bill for Masumbuko’s operation. “We have had a very rough time ever since the conception of our son. All we need now is for him to get well and have normal growth. We are worried for his life and badly need help,” says Masumbuko’s mother. For $1,025, we can pay for Masumbuko to receive the operation he needs. His doctors expect that with treatment, “Masumbuko will heal from the constant fever that he’s been having, the cerebral spinal fluid will stop leaking from his back, he will feed well, and have a better chance of surviving and continuing with normal growth.”