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| Personal details | |
|---|---|
| Name | Florence Ochembo |
| Age | geboren 2003 (7 Jahre) |
| Place of birth | Maasai Village |
| Residence | Nairobi |
| Country | Kenya |
Social circumstances:
Florence lives with her parents and her 4-year-old sister in a dirty, run-down neighbourhood of the Kenyan capital. Her father works as a car washer; her mother is unemployed.
The money her father brings home is therefore only just enough to cover the bare essentials.
Medical condition:
Florence was born with a vascular malformation in her nose, which disfigures it grotesquely and has recently been increasingly hindering her ability to breathe through her nose.
The blemish on her face weighs heavily on her: she is sad, shy and doesn’t like to laugh at all – she has been teased, laughed at and even suspected of being HIV-positive far too often in the past. She has no real friends.
Tulisa would like to help little Florence. Confirming the diagnosis is the first step towards this: using an ultrasound scan and an MRI scan of her face, the nature and extent of the pathological vascular condition can be determined, and a decision made on the most appropriate surgical treatment.
Please help Florence on her journey back to a normal life – a life worth living in the truest sense of the word – without being further marginalised by those around her as if she were a leper.
Thank you very much!