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Francesca, a single mother in Nungua, Ghana, who is currently unemployed – largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic – is barely managing to make ends meet through odd jobs. Francesca suffered from multiple large uterine fibroids (benign muscle tumours in the womb), which were constantly …
Lawrencia is a dedicated pupil at a suburban school in Accra, the capital of Ghana. She comes from a large family, where her motivated parents have ensured that all her siblings can attend school. However, due to the school fees, there is hardly any money …
Godwin Bote, a courier and motorbike taxi driver who has to look after his four-year-old son on his own due to his mother’s mental health condition, suffered a complete fracture of his right lower leg in a road traffic accident last October. Although the fractures …
As many will recall, Phoebe, aged 1½, from Accra in Ghana, had suffered since birth from a rare, difficult-to-treat and life-threatening heart defect: the so-called patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). This duct forms a connection between the aorta and the pulmonary artery in the unborn child. …
Daniel is Patience’s only son. He has suffered from hydrocephalus (‘water on the brain’) since he was a newborn. As if that weren’t enough, his mother is living with HIV. She is unemployed and is supported by her own mother. Hydrocephalus is an enlargement of …
Harriet, who works as a nursery teacher and has not received a salary since April this year due to the current closure of schools and nurseries caused by Covid-19, has successfully undergone a complex operation to repair her large umbilical hernia. The sections of intestine …
The Madamfo Foundation, based in Ghana (Ghana Aid Projects – Madamfo Ghana Aid Association www.madamfo-ghana.de), asked Tulisa for support for 12-year-old Jessica from Accra, Ghana. There’s nothing more to add: Jessica is now doing very well and is over the moon. A big thank you …
Juma Shaban was 15 years old at the time and lived with his two brothers and his single mother as a member of the Nubian community in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. Due to his illness, he was only able to attend school irregularly and …
Rebecca Ochembo, born in December 1994, is a young single mother from Kibera, the slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with which you are by now all too familiar. Her son, who is now three years old, was the result of a rape. She was …
Mary is almost 7 years old and lives in the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa: Kibera, Nairobi. She was born as a result of her mother being raped; her mother was subsequently forced to drop out of school and abandon her plans for the future …