Meet Eunice, she is a 33-year-old woman who lives in Kenya with her husband and their two children.
"Eunice had been selling vegetables at her home until April 2015, when she was hit by a motorbike as she walked home," our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF), shares. She fractured the tibia bone in her left leg.
AMHF continues, "Eunice has [an] inability to use the left leg and is in pain. If not treated, the bones may remain separated leading to mal union. The dislodged plate may affect other tissues and Eunice may become disabled."
$1,125 in funding will provide Eunice with open-reduction internal fixation surgery. This procedure corrects a severe, misaligned fracture where the two ends of broken bone are far apart. After the surgery, AMHF expects "the bones will unite. After Eunice is fully recovered, she will be able to walk again. Eunice will be able to work and provide for her family."
Eunice shares, "I am suffering a lot and I don’t know what to do. I was hoping to get well and expand my small business. Now, my only wish is to be well so that I can be able to walk again.''
Let's help Eunice get the surgery she needs!