Name:  Rougaya Date of Birth:  1999 Date of Contact:  September 2012 Location:  Northern Cameroon Condition:  Heart disease Operation:  Rougaya is getting ready to make a 3-day journey south to have her assessment for surgery.

Name:  Moubarak Date of Birth:  1999 Date of Contact:  September 2012 Location:  Northern Cameroon Condition:  Heart valve disease from rheumatic fever. Operation:  Moubarak had successful heart valve replacement surgery on 13th December 2012 at Shisong Hospital in southern Cameroon. Current Needs: Moubarak is recovering extremely well. He is on anticoagulants, which he will likely have to…

Name:  Dedeline Mibamba Date of Birth:  1982 Date of Contact:  Location:  Democratic Republic of the Congo Condition:  Loss of both lower limbs as a teenager in a landmine explosion on the Congo/Angola border. Prosthetic:  Dedeline has only had one basic set of very old and worn prostheses, but Willing & Abel in conjunction with the…

Name:  Sulaiman Date of Birth:  2004 Date of Contact:  June 2012 Location:  Sierra Leone Condition:  Hydrocephalus, also known as “water in the brain”, caused by a tumour. Operation:  Sulaiman was in the ICU at the Children’s Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and was transfered to a Cure International hospital in Guinea for treatment. While having…

Name:  Hashmot Date of Birth: 1979 Date of Contact: November 2011 Location: Bangladesh Condition: Severe disfigurement/loss of left face due to a vicious tiger attack at age 14. As a young boy Hashmot earned a living as a fisherman working the network of rivers that cover the Sunderban region of southern Bangladesh. But one evening,…

Name:  Salome Date of Birth:  2012 Date of Contact: Location:  Northern Cameroon Condition:  Facial burns from falling face first into a fire. Emergency treatment:  Her parents took her to a hospital, but were told to take her home to die. The parents then took her to a local witch doctor, who put rabbit fur on…

Name:  Edwardson Date of Birth:  1998 Date of Contact:  December 2011 Location:  Port-au-Prince, Haiti Condition:  Bilateral corneal keratosis Operation:  Abi met with Edwardson and Dr. Linda (from Samaritan’s Purse) in Haiti in December, 2011. He needs corneal transplants, and Willing and Abel is on a mission to make that happen. We are now halfway there,…

Name:  Lonema Date of Birth: Date of Contact:  November 2011 Location:  Democratic Republic of the Congo Condition:  Need of prosthetic due to both arms being amputated below the shoulder. Eleven years ago, during the war, Lonema was captured and tied up using an inner tube from a bicycle. It was tied too tight, resulting in…

Name:  Gwadam Date of Birth:  2000 Date of Contact:  November 2011 Location:  Northern Cameroon Condition:  Cleft lip Operation:  Gwadam had successful surgery to repair her cleft lip in March 2012. Current Needs & Updates:  Gwadam is from a rural village in Northern Cameroon. In fact, it is so remote that it took to the age…

Name:  Richmond Date of Birth:  2004 Date of Contact:  June 2011 Location:  Ghana Condition:  Congenital hydroceles – a condition males can be born with where fluid abnormally collects in the scrotum. Operation:  After a long wait to have surgery arranged for locally in Ghana, Richmond finally had his surgery at the beginning of October 2012. Willing &…