Six-year-old Navaraj is a student from Nepal who enjoys playing volleyball with his neighborhood friends. While his mother looks after the farm and the family, his father works in India to support the family back home.
One day, Navaraj was playing with his little brother on the porch of his house when he slipped and fell down, fracturing his right elbow. “It was raining, and the porch was slippery,” explains Navaraj’s father about the conditions leading to his son’s injury.
Thankfully, because his father had come home on holiday, Navaraj could be brought to the hospital right away. “It would’ve been difficult for his mother to leave behind the cattle, the farm, our younger son and bring him all the way to the hospital,” his father added.
Since the accident, Navaraj has been in a lot of pain and has been vomiting, too. Naturally, his parents are concerned about his condition. “I am worried that this injury will hinder my son’s mobility,” shares Navaraj’s father.
For $579, Navaraj will undergo surgery to align his fractured elbow and hold the bones together with pins. Funding also covers the costs of four nights in the hospital, X-rays, physiotherapy, medicine to relieve pain and prevent infection, and cast removal after Navaraj’s elbow has healed.
Let’s help fund surgery for Navaraj!