Nkashangaki is a small-scale farmer from Uganda. She is widow with five children.
Eight years ago, Nkashangaki began to experience troubling symptoms, including heart palpitations and difficulty swallowing and breathing. 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 Nkashangaki receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on June 26 at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $240, and she and her family need help raising money.
Nkashangaki says, “I will continue with cultivation when done with surgery as I will be relieved of this condition that I have been with for long time.”