Keep 500 Sick Kids Alive in Crisis-Hit Communities

Hello, 

Neglect and abandonment is one of the fastest killers of sickle cell children. It creeps in through poverty, broken families and the difficult choices parents must make. 

Dorcas is one of our early beneficiaries. She and her younger brother both live with sickle cell disease. Their father abandoned the family years ago, leaving their mother who is a rural schoolteacher, to raise them alone.

Dorcas’s doctors prescribed hydroxyurea, but her mother simply cannot afford it. The medication costs nearly half of her monthly salary, and with two children needing it, she has resigned herself to fate.

Dorcas and her brother have been enduring frequent pain crises, repeated hospitalizations, and emergency blood transfusions, each one more expensive than hydroxyurea. They always resorted to begging to pay for these blood transfusions and hospitalization. 

Your support can help us ensure Dorcas and children like her receive hydroxyurea regularly preventing crises, reducing hospital visits, and sparing families from the desperation of begging for blood.

Thank you for standing with Dorcas and children like her

Links:

• The Untold Stories of Sickle Cell Disease - Faith