Keep 500 Sick Kids Alive in Crisis-Hit Communities

Thank you again for standing with our sick kids. 

You may already know this but I wanted to particularly highlight the difficulty in getting blood transfusion for kids with the deadly sickle cell disease. 

First, this kids are in hard to reach crises ridden communities where road access is limited. Then we need to find matching donors (often requires repeated testing which also cost money). Where a match cannot be found, we must travel to urban centers and the logistics of shipping blood and blood products through these terrain is cumbersome. Having to deal with these problems when a child is literarily dying is truamatic for parents. 

We can avoid these and this is why we're soliciting your help. Every cent donated brings us closer to preventing their cells from sickling. 

Please continue to stand with us as we prepare to move to implementation and I will be right here providing you with an update. 

Links:

• Blood Transfusions in Sickle Cell Disease

Thank you for standing with us in doing our best to help sick kids around us. 

I just wanted to highlight to you that your donation (no matter how small) is having a direct tremendous impact on the lives of sick kids and their families. 

A gift of $25 may seem small, but for a sickle cell child in a displacement camp, it is powerful:

• It provides a full month of hydroxyurea, giving a child relief from pain and preventing lifethreatening complications.

• It helps ensure mobile clinic access, allowing our medical team to reach children in camps where no health facility exists.

• It supports vaccination and essential medicines, protecting children from infections that are especially dangerous for sickle cell patients.

For many families who cannot afford even basic treatment, your $25 is the difference between a child who is constantly sick and a child who can play, learn, and grow.

We are preparing to begin full mobile clinic visits to displacement camps, where our medical team will provide hydroxyurea, essential vaccines, and clinical followup for 500 sickle cell children.

I will return soon with updates from the field so you can see the lives you are touching.

Thank you

Elizabeth

Links:

• Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Disease