“I am glad we’ve found a place for our daughter, Blessing, to be treated,” Blessing’s mother says. “I thank the Almighty God, and am hopeful for a successful surgery.”
Meet Blessing, a newborn baby girl from Kenya who has spina bifida – a birth defect in which the spinal cord fails to develop properly. “Blessing is at high risk of infection and developing a tethered cord if not treated soon,” our partner African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF) reports.
“Two-day-old Blessing’s birth brought joy and happiness to her parents who had previously lost two children,” AMHF tells us. “Unfortunately she was born with a mass on her back, and the joy turned into sadness and agony. Her parents live in a two-room timber house, and are small scale farmers, earning a monthly income of approximately $60 from their farm’s produce. This barely meets the family’s basic needs, let alone Blessing’s need for surgical care.”
For $805, we can treat Blessing’s mass and help her grow normally. AMHF concludes, “The surgery will prevent Blessing from getting an infection through her leaking back as well as development of a tethered cord.”
