Ahimbisibwe is a farmer from Uganda. She is married and a mother to four children: two boys, one operates a small-scale retail shop and the other is in third grade. Her daughters are also still in school. Ahimbisibwe and her husband earn a living from small-scale farming where they grow food crops for home consumption and sell off the surplus.
Five years ago, Ahimbisibwe began to experience troubling symptoms, including difficulty in breathing, pain when swallowing and coughing. 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 Ahimbisibwe receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on July 14 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.
Ahimbisibwe shared, “I hope to recover from this long-standing condition, and expect that I will have a new, better life and be able to continue with farming after I have fully recovered.”