By Merry Broughal | Project Leader
Getting His Life Back on Track!
Charles is getting his life back on track, and it’s your support to our Urgent Medical Program that helps make it all possible.
Thank You!
With your support, we continued to provide urgent medical care to both adults and children suffering with common illnesses found in most third world countries – malaria, typhoid, respiratory illnesses. There were hospital visits and hospital stays.
We are thankful they received the help needed, but we are most excited about seeing Charles take the next step to getting his life back on track!
It was just over a year ago we met Charles. His condition was worsening and he had no money for the surgeries needed to remove the disfigurement from his face. He was no longer able to work and provide for his family. People were afraid of him because of how he looked so no one would hire him. They had no money, no food.
Olalo stepped in to help.
We are now coming up on the first anniversary of surgery #1 and getting ready for surgery #2 in just a few days.
It’s been a long road. Literally!
The ride on hot, crowded busses to Nairobi for the surgery is a long 7-8 hours. The roads alternate between paved areas for smooth sailing and areas filled with pot holes and what seem like mile-high speed bumps to slow you down. His journey back home is the same...in reverse.
Following surgery #1, an infection in the stitches flared up and Charles had to take that same long bus ride back to Nairobi for treatment, and then home again.
The entire process was a very stressful ordeal and Charles was disappointed in the outcome of surgery. He had expected more improvement than there was.
When we saw Charles back in April, we noticed a very big improvement and saw the difference that surgery had made. Before surgery, his eye was covered; following surgery, his eye was again visible and much of the disfigurement gone, but there is still much to be done.
Following a series of set backs and delays, Charles is now getting ready to travel once again to Nairobi for surgery #2 and a visit with the dentist. We know he is anxious for the outcome of it all, but as you can imagine not too excited and very stressed about the entire process and the long road back there and home again.
There is a strong possibility surgery #3 will be needed, but for now we are focused on #2 and its outcome. While he is away in Nairobi, Olalo will provide food for his family so he has one less thing to worry about.
Please remember to keep Charles and his family in your thoughts and in your prayers!
Thank you all for the support you give to our Urgent Medical Care fund. It is You that changes and impacts lives and gives hope to those without hope. We cannot thank you enough!
Merry Broughal
Olalo of Hope-Kenya
By Merry Broughal | Project Leader
By Merry Broughal | Project Leader
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