Lucy is a mother of six daughters from Kenya. She and her husband practise subsistence farming on their small farm. Due to their socioeconomic status, they were not able to give their daughters a good education and so they too are also struggling in their own families.
Around 10 years ago, Lucy began to experience troubling symptoms, including frequent headaches and throat pain. 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 Lucy receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on May 18th at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $688, and she and her family need help raising money.
“We are only farmers and have no one to turn to for help. I am humbly requesting for help to stop the pain and the headaches,” said Lucy.