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Health > Help youth in the Eastern Caribbean region walk! (#3405)
Summary
This project provides medical care for 130 youth in the Eastern Caribbean region needing immediate care for orthopedic deformities or diseases to enable them to walk and live a normal life.
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Ninety percent of the world’s population has access to only 10% of the world’s health resources. Children born in the Eastern Caribbean region with orthopedic problems have no hope for relief without outside intervention. For example, on a past IHC mission trip, a 12-year-old Vincentian child, Zenel was healed. She was born severely bow-legged and needed surgery in order to walk. She recently had large braces removed from her legs and cried tears of joy to feel the weight of them lifted.
IHC will conduct evaluation clinics and perform surgeries enabling youth to walk. One such youth is Zina, who needs a new hip. She says, “I won’t be in as much pain anymore.” Surgeons will bring donated hip implants to build a new hip for Zina.
Total Funding Received to Date: $14,965
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,035
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
This project will provide life-enhancing care for an estimated 130 youth in the Eastern Caribbean region. In addition, it will provide surgical training for local surgeons so the region can become less dependent on foreign aid.
Over the past six years IHC has been able to reach thousands of children with volunteer teams providing surgical and diagnostic screening services through our mission trip program.
- Susan Rickman, President, IHC
Jennifer Curtis
Development Manager
1900 Byrd Avenue
Suite 204
Richmond, VA 23230
United States
8042828830
Email:
International Hospital for Children
1900 Byrd Avenue Suite 204
Richmond,
VA
23230
United States
804-282-8830
http://www.healachild.org
This project is located in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
and can also be found under Health.
For more information about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, read the Human Development Report on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines or the Wikipedia entry for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
This project was last updated on March 17, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 30, 2009
By Jennifer Curtis - Development Manager, March 17, 2010 12:43 PM
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