Last year with your generosity, we funded the completion of the Jean Carley memorial hospital in Kumi, Northern Uganda, and with surplus funds, we funded a number of corrective surgeries for Ugandan children whose deformities made them outcasts from the local community. These surgeries offer them a chance at being welcomed back into society, enjoying a better quality of life, and the prospect of a longer life.

This year I am targeting to raise 4,000 euros, which will pay for 10 more complex orthapaedic surgeries at the hospital, for children who cannot sit without pain, nor walk.

I offer this painful reminder as to why these children bear these deformities:

Girls are forced to be sex slaves to the army and when made pregnant in the jungle often get malaria. Once contracting malaria during pregnancy kids can be born with deformed withered limbs. Mostly feet. In uganda there is a terrible stigma around disability and kids with any physical disability are often fed last, rarely ever educated and sometimes left to die. With funding, we can fix these limbs medically and safely . The stigma is lifted and kids can take part in normal life.