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Ten days ago, five mothers, five children travelled for 40 hours from Sierra Leone to reach Hope Medical Centre in N’Zao, Guinea. The children all needed cleft lip and palate repairs and there with no possibility to have them repaired in Sierra Leone. Tired but hopeful they arrived last Sunday and during last week each…

   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 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 – 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…

   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…

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…

     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.

    Jericho (11 months) and 21 other children have had cleft lip repairs in the Philippines in June thanks to W&A and SmileTrain (www,smiletrain.org.uk).  We paid for their travel to Calbyog with parents, their food and two accompanying nurses.  22 children are now able to smile!