“I really feel unwell and I cannot afford to pay for surgery,” shares Rose, a 45-year-old woman from Uganda.
“Rose started feeling lower abdominal pain two years ago. She went to a clinic where she was diagnosed with fibroids,” says our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation (AMHF). Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus, which often cause severe pain and bleeding.
“Because of the pain and bleeding Rose gets tired very easily and she cannot do her work as she used to,” AMHF explains.
Rose is a housewife with three children. She enjoys serving people in her family’s small Christian community. “Her husband is self-employed, doing bicycle transport services, from which he earns very little,” AMHF says.
For $250, we can fund a hysterectomy to remove Rose’s uterus, relieving her from the pain and bleeding her fibroids have caused.
Following this surgery, Rose wants to return to growing food so she can feed her family and sell enough to make a small income.