Nine-year-old Thiri is a first-grader, living with her mother and two brothers in Burma. Her mother sells vegetables in a local shop, while Thiri and her brothers attend school. While playing with her friends in front of her house in early January 2023, Thiri tripped, and fell into a pile of rice sacks, injuring her left eye in the process. Immediately, she realized that she could not see out of her left eye. Over time, her eye injury became more painful, red, and sensitive to light. Eventually, when her eye did not heal, her mother brought her to Mae Sot Hospital, where she was diagnosed with traumatic glaucoma. Our medical partner, Burma Children Medical Fund, is requesting $1,500 to fund lens replacement surgery for Thiri. On February 1st, doctors at Mae Sot General Hospital will remove the natural lenses from both of her eyes, and replace them with intraocular lens implants. Once she has recovered. Thiri will regain her ability to see clearly. Now she needs your help to fund this critical procedure. Thiri's mother said: "I want her to receive surgery and recover soon so that she [Thiri] can go back to school and I can go back to work. I want her to be rich in the future, not like me, and own her own shop, because she likes to cook."

Hing is a 30-year-old rice farmer from Cambodia. He and his wife have two daughters, including a nine-year-old in first grade and a four-year-old who is not yet in school. He shares the work on the farm with his four older siblings who live nearby. In his free time, he likes to sing. In October 2022, Hing was riding a motorcycle and collided head-on with another motorcycle on a dark road, fracturing his left femur. His family took him to a provincial government hospital, where he had surgery and metal hardware inserted to help heal the fracture in his leg. His pain remained severe, and, 13 days later, he underwent surgery for a fractured hip as well. Now, the bone has healed and Hing would like the hardware to be removed. Fortunately, surgeons at our medical partner, Children's Surgical Centre (CSC), can help. On March 10th, Hing will undergo a hardware removal procedure, where surgeons will remove all the metal hardware which has continued to cause him a chronic pain. Now, he needs help raising $304 to fund his procedure and care. Hing shared, "after the operation, I hope that I will not have any more pain and will be able to take over some of my wife's work."

Edith is a house-helper for a family in Nairobi. She goes to work for two days a week and is paid Ksh 1,000.00 (8 US dollars) per day. As a widow, this is the income she relies on to support herself and her two kids who are high school teenagers aged 17 and 15 years old. For some time now, Edith has been experiencing abdominal bleeding and lower back pain. She has been diagnosed with an intrauterine myoma (fibroids). She needs to undergo a hysterectomy, a procedure in which surgeons will remove her uterus. Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $1260 to fund Edith's surgery. On November 3rd, she will undergo gynecological surgery at our medical partner's care center. Once recovered, Edith will be able to resume her daily activities free of pain but she needs help to pay for this surgery. Edith says, “I started feeling weak and drained. I thought it is the long hours I work. It gradually became hard for me to endure working for a lengthy period and I could not walk for long distances. I was losing lots of blood. I was admitted to the hospital because my haemoglobin levels were so low. I need this surgery to correct these anomalies and get back to my normal life.”