Akandwanaho is a 1-year-old baby girl from Uganda. She is the youngest in a family of two siblings. Her mother is a subsistence small-scale farmer, growing mostly crops like beans, cassava, potatoes, and peas for their family’s consumption and the surplus is always sold off in order to buy basic home essentials. Her father is a construction worker.
Akandwanaho was brought to the hospital by her mother with a painful posterior knee mass, which she has had ever since she was born. She cries a lot due to the discomfort.
Akandwanaho traveled to our medical partner’s care center to receive treatment. On April 7th, surgeons will remove the mass. Now, Akandwanaho needs help to raise $187 to fund this procedure.
Akandwanaho’s mother says: “I hope that when my child is treated, she will be relieved from the pain.”