The Children – Page 3 – Willing & Abel

Sierra Leone – cleft lip & palate repairs

Willing and Abel has arranged for 5 children to travel from Sierra Leone to Guinea for cleft lip and palate repairs. They set off yesterday on the 750 kms journey to Guinea by car – children plus parents. Please pray for safe travel and successful surgery. The first picture is of Memunata who needs…

Zalissa from Burkina Faso

Zalissa is 11 years old but her growth is severely stunted. She was born in Burkina Faso, West Africa with a complex malformation in her renal tract which means she has been battling infections most of her life. Willing and Abel has helped facilitate some special X-ray tests and blood tests (through a local missionary)…

Liliane from Cameroon – successful operation

LILIANE – successful operation Great news – Liliane’s op was completed successful at the hospital in Milan (‘a total correction of her heart malformation with conduit implantation’!) and she is now recovering. Praise God for this. The surgeon has said she will need a further valve replacement as she grows but this can be done…

Santigi from Sierra Leone

We were able to help Santigi (now aged 8yrs) have surgery in Kenya in 2011. He was born with a condition which malformed both legs leaving him to shuffle around on his knees. Following surgery, he was fitted with prosthetic limbs and now is able to walk and go to school. These are the…

Althea Felizarta (2yrs) from the Philippines

Althea is 2 years old, female, born to Mrs. Loida and Jovan Felizarta on December 26, 2012. They live in Brgy. Salvacion Silago Southern, Leyte (almost 6 hours from Tacloban in the Philippines). Her father is a farmer and her mother is a housewife. In 2014, their baby was admitted in Southern Leyte. They were…

Freidelyn Morallos (aged 10yrs) from the Philippines

Freidelyn Morallos is 10 years old, female, born to Mrs. Dolores and Alfredo Morallos Jr. on January 1, 2005. They are from Brgy. Binongto-an Cabariwan Alang- Alang, Leyte, Philippines. She has a sister named Jennyvie Morallos aged 7 years old. Her father and mother are both farmers. In December 2013, after Typhoon Haiyan, she was diagnosed…

UPDATE – Reynaldo, aged 4 – heart surgery success

Reynaldo is 4yrs old and has Tetralogy of Fallot – a serious heart defect. He will be admitted on 14 February to a hospital in Manila for surgery. He has already been through a lot – pneumonia, blood transfusions and latterly dental extractions to get him ready for surgery. Please pray for him and help Willing…

10 kids have had cardiac surgery in the Philippines

W&A helped 6 children in the Philippines to have cardiac surgery in January– 4 more kids are scheduled to receive surgery in February. If you can make a donation to help these children that would be really great – thanks.

Lester from the Philippines

Update: Abi and Kenny managed to meet with Lester and his mum while they were in the Philippines (May 2014). They are keen to proceed with the surgery which will involved amputation of his enlarged fingers and subsequently a toe graft. This will give him much better use of his hands and reduce the excessive…

Moubarak from Cameroon

Moubarak had a heart valve replacement in December 2012 when he was 13yrs old. We also supplied a portable blood thinner monitor as he is on blood thinners post-surgery. He is now doing well – here he is pictured with his dad and sister.