Hanad is a softspoken boy from a brave family. His mother, Halima, is a refugee who fled Somalia in the 1992 conflict. She and her children found safety in Kenya , but now an accident threatens to set them back again.
Last year, Hanad was playing with his friends right outside his home when he was hit by a car with a reckless driver. Hanad incurred multiple serious wounds. He was rushed to the hospital, and one of his legs had to be amputated on the spot.
Months later, one of Hanad’s major leg wounds still hasn’t healed. He is supposed to be in school, but his mother is afraid to let him interact with the other children for fear that his wound might become infected.
There’s hope that Hanad, whose doctors describe him as pleasant and curious, might one day be fitted with a prosthesis that will enable him to live a relatively normal life. But in an email to Watsi, a staff member at African Mission Healthcare Foundation says, “If the dead tissue from the wound is not removed, it will get bigger, which will force the doctors to remove his stump and leave no limb to which prosthesis can later be attached.”
Hanad’s mother has already gone through so much to keep her family safe, and it seems brutally unjust that a road accident might pull that rug out from under them now. During the course of his hospital visits, Hanad has come to admire his doctors. He now says he wants to be a doctor when he grows up, and we think he deserves the chance. We need to raise the $750 it will take to perform skin grafting on Hanad’s wound and give him the opportunity to live a normal life.