This smiling fifteen-year-old is Erick. He lives in Kenya with his family, is the oldest of three siblings, and is in secondary school. Erick’s father is a casual laborer while his mother runs a small green grocer kiosk.
Recently Erick had an appendicectomy. A couple of weeks later he developed fluid in his abdomen. Erick had already been missing school, and now the abdominal pain and discomfort has been so much that he has lost his appetite and is continuing to miss school. ‘‘I am worried that I have been missing school because I hope to be a doctor when I grow up,” says Erick.
“If Erick is not treated, the fluid may continue to increase, affecting other organs,” Watsi’s medical partner writes. For $560 we can provide him with the procedure, a laparatomy, needed to drain the fluid that has accumulated in his abdomen. Let’s help Erick be free from pain, healthy, and get him back in school and caught up on his schoolwork.