16-year-old James is an active boy, he likes looking after his father’s cattle, digging, and playing football in his free time. He is the fourth born in a family of six children. His father has two wives and they live in a traditional grass-thatched mud house in West Pokot County in Kenya. James’s father is a farmer while his mother is a housewife.
At the age of four, while playing football, James fell and sustained a patella dislocation - a knee injury in which the knee cap slips out of its normal position. The condition has greatly affected his mobility to the point that he is not able to walk because of pain. He now limps as he walks, a situation which has affected his education.
Fortunately, James is scheduled to undergo an open reduction surgery (with possible DFO) to return his knee’s position and realign his bones so he can walk without any difficulty in the future. Their family cannot afford the treatment’s bill and have requested for help meeting the cost of $1,224.
“I desire to walk normally like my friends and so that I can continue helping my parents at home,” James told us.