Children

Find out more about the children we are helping now and keep up to date on those we've helped in the past.

Here you'll find profiles of children and updates on their progress. For other news items please see our News page.

Yelikha from Guinea

Yelikha is 17 year old girl from Conakry, the capital of Guinea (in West Africa). She was in a car accident a decade ago in…

This lovely little girl was born on 9 May 2018 with an ectopic bladder (the bladder develops outside and results in incontinence). She…

Emmanuella (8yrs old) is from a remote region in Ghana. She developed nephrotic syndrome (acute kidney failure following infection) and needed to be…

Jonan was born on 23/06/18 with Down’s Syndrome and a heart defect (VSD). He was referred to W&A in late 2019 with…

We have flown Sulaiman and Esther from Uganda to the Narayana Hospital in India for heart operations. Sulaiman is a 13 month old boy who…

We arranged for Joshua Kigozi, 18 months old, to fly with his mum to Bangalore, India for surgery. He underwent an AVCD repair on Friday…

In 2015 we arranged for Liliane Yanga to be flown from Cameroon to a hospital in Milan for a life saving operation. Liliane was only…

Charity Adanuvor had an operation last week on Mercy Ships for her ameloblastoma – large benign facial tumour – this is probably the largest one…

Pictures tell a thousand words! Day 4 post-op and surgery has gone very well – Ethan’s tummy is much smaller, drains out, eating a little…

Update 13 February – Two boys to Guinea -Don’t Mohammed (11yrs) and Alhaji (12) look fantastic? All credit to the skills of Dr Tony…

Rabiatu had her second leg operated on in Niger during August and is now walking with the help of a walker – photo of her…

Derrick is a little boy from rural Ghana who was born with radial club hands. He was introduced to us and we transported him…

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