Josephine is a two-day-old baby living in Tanzania. Her father works as a guard in a private organization and her mother tends to the house. Her parents saved money to cover child delivery and newborn expenses, but cannot afford to treat Josephine’s severe condition. The family now lives with Josephine’s grandparents, who provide accommodation and food during this tough time. Josephine was born with a complication that causes her to defecate through the urethra. She is in danger of kidney infection and doctors say she could easily die. Her mother says, "I just pray that my baby will survive. I wish to see her grow up, get married, and have children of her own.” With a $1,200 treatment, Josephine will receive surgery so that she will defecate out of the proper location. Let’s give newborn Josephine a warm welcome to the world and give her family a hand!

Sebastien is a 13-year-old boy from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is in the 7th grade and hopes to study medicine to eventually become a physician. In 2009, at age nine, he was playing on top of a high wall when he fell and “landed sitting down” on top of a metal pipe that was sticking several inches out of the ground. The metal pipe impacted him between the legs, completely disrupting his urethra making it impossible for him to urinate on his own. Later that evening, he had a catheter placed in his abdomen, and he has been living with this catheter ever since. Sebastien is otherwise in good health, but he experiences frequent infections and fevers linked to the catheter, and is in pain where the catheter enters his body. It also causes him emotional distress and embarrassment, especially as he gets older. Over the long term, Sebastien’s life could be at risk due to kidney infections related to his catheter. For $1500, Sebastien can receive a urethroplasty procedure, which will restore the urethra and allow him to urinate without a catheter. Let's help give Sebastien the chance to live a healthy life again!