Iyanna is a happy one-year-old who likes to be around people. She is her parents’ first child.
Parts of Iyanna’s intestinal tract do not function. She has had a colostomy, an operation that provides an alternative channel for feces to leave her body. Iyanna has had complications with her colostomy, with bleeding and the risk of infection. She needs a further operation to close her colostomy and make her intestines work normally.
Iyanna’s parents both work hard in the village market in Tanzania. Her mother says, “It is a blessing to have a child. Our prayer is to see our baby able to use the bathroom like any other normal person and be able to go to school and become independent”. The surgery Iyanna needs costs $1200, and it will give Iyanna a healthy, normal childhood, free from medical complications. Let’s give Iyanna, and her loving parents, that gift.