Mendero is a small-scale farmer from Uganda. She is married with ten children.
30 years ago, Mendero began to experience troubling symptoms, including difficulty breathing. She was diagnosed with a goiter, 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 Mendero receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on June 28 at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $240, and she and her family need help raising money.
Mendero says, “I hope to continue with cultivation when I am done with surgery for the care of my family.”