By Frank Peterson | Founder, Partner for Surgery
Ana, born with a cleft lip and palate, was six months old in May. She is the fifth child of a day laborer earning two dollars a day to support his entire family, which lives outside the village of Chisec in a rented house that does not have electricity or water. Ana's two older brothers attend school, which further stretches the family finances. They are the kind of typical rural family we at Partner for Surgery assist with surgical care.
In January 2019, Ana was brought to a PfS medical mission in Chisec and admitted to our in-home Cleft Infant Nutrition Program. Since then, our health promoter for the area, Julio Sel, has visited monthly to provide Ana formula, monitor her health, and offer education on maintaining good health for the whole family. Fortunately, Ana qualified in July for the first of the two corrective surgeries she will need.
We are confident that Ana will be one of the 1,000 patients that we expect to receive a surgical procedure this year from one of the 17 teams we support with patients. This is all made possible by our volunteers and donors, and we thank you again for your support.
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
