40-year-old Ta Ler lives with her mother, sister, brother-in-law, two nephews and a niece in Burma. The family works on someone else’s farm, growing and harvesting rice. They plant vegetables or forage for fruits and vegetables. They also raise pigs and chickens which they sell when they need to buy things.
In December 2015, Ta Ler started experiencing pain in her lower abdomen. She had no money so she did not seek any treatment, only using paracetamol (pain medication), which helped reduce the pain temporarily. The pain gets worse when she walks a lot or is outside in the sun and causes her to not eat or sleep well. Eventually the paracetamol would not relieve her pain anymore and got more severe each day. With support from her brother and mother, Ta Ler visited a clinic where an ultrasound revealed that she has a mass in her uterus and an ovarian cyst. Ta Ler requires a total hysterectomy surgery to remove the mass and cyst.
For $1,104, we can fund the surgery Ta Ler needs. “I would be very happy to be healthy again so that I can get back to work,” Ta Ler shared.