Ninsiima is a 43-year-old farmer from Uganda. Ninsiima is married and is a mother to four children with three daughters and with one son, all are studying at secondary levels in school. Ninsiima dropped out of school at sixth grade when she was young due to lack of school fees. She currently earns a living from small-scale farming growing food crops like beans, maize, millet and sorghum for home consumption, but often sells off the surplus to generate an income to her family. Her husband works as a builder.
Three years ago, Ninsiima began to experience troubling symptoms, including shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with a goiter, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland. She needs surgery to prevent her symptoms from getting worse.
Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is helping Ninsiima receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on December 1st at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $252, and she and her family need help raising money.
Ninsiima says: “I hope that I will be able to have a new life after surgery and continue with farming to sustain my family.”