By Koni Yimer | Managing Director
BHE currently supports 47 children and youth along with 39 guardians. Of the children we support 19 of them are in primary school, 9 of them are in secondary school, 2 are attending vocational and technical training and 6 are following their higher education studies. This year 3 of our youth graduated from university earning degrees in Water Engineering, Nutrition and Food Science as well as in Accounting and Finance.
It fills all of us at Brave Hearts Ethiopia with immense joy to share with you a moving story about Alemu, a resilient boy in the BHE program who underwent surgery a few days ago. We immeasurably thankful to Cure Hospital who took care of him.
Alemu is a young boy who has endured a lot of hardship. His parents unable to take care of him, so Alemu lived with his grandmother in the countryside. Unfortunately, he had an accident while playing soccer and broke his left arm.
Although he was hospitalized, he was unable to gain effective treatment and his arm suffered from infection, muscle loss and deformation.
Alemu's arm was deeply damaged by the infection he contracted because the local hospital carried out traditional practices that lacked medical merit. When he went to visit Cure Hospital, the doctors were afraid that his arm was beyond repair and would have to be amputated.
The doctors decided to undergo a surgery that was predicted to last 45 minutes, however, it lasted almost 3 hours long. Alemu's pain was almost unbearable. His damaged tissues in his arm made it particularly difficult, yet the medical team was able to complete the surgery successfully.
We are very proud of Alemu who was extremely brave and strong throughout this ordeal! After much deserved sleep and rest at the hospital, he is now home with his guardian and recovering. He will rest for the next 6 weeks until he goes back to Cure Hospital for a week long physiotherapy program.
BHE is supporting Alemu through its holistic care program including educational, health and counseling support. Despite all that Alemu went through we are delighted his surgery has ended successfully and he is now making recovery. He is now able to go to school and continue his education.
"Thanks to Daniela Berger, Dr. Rick and Cure Hospital staff for their support and ensuring that Alemu received the medical attention he required" ~ Koni Yimer, Managing Director, BHE
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