Niwandinda is a 16-year-old student from Uganda. She is just starting senior high school. Niwandinda is the firstborn in a family of six children. She has three sisters and two brothers who all still in school too. Her mother works as a small scale farmer, while her father is a bricklayer.
Three years ago, Niwandinda began to experience troubling symptoms, including difficulty breathing and an irritating cough. She was diagnosed with a goiter, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland. Niwandinda needs surgery to prevent her symptoms from getting worse.
Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is helping Niwandinda 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.
Niwandinda’s father shared, “I hope that she will be fine once her surgery is done and I hope she will continue with school without any problem.”