Kemari is a small-scale farmer from Uganda that primarily cultivates food-crops. She is married with nine children; four of them are married and self-employed as small-scale farmers, another is a primary school teacher, two perform manual labor, and the rest are in primary and secondary school and university. Her husband is a construction worker but is currently unable to work due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Three years ago, Kemari began to experience troubling symptoms, including difficulty speaking, singing, and swallowing. She was diagnosed with a goitre, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland. She needs surgery to prevent her symptoms from getting worse.
Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is helping Kemari receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on June 16 at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $264, and she and her family need help raising money.
Kemari shares, “I will be grateful when am relieved of this condition that has affected my health for so long and after surgery I will continue farming.”