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For a child growing up in poverty with spina bifida or hydrocephalus, your support makes a huge difference. Your donation means medical equipment or an operation. This significantly improves the quality of life and gives the child a future.
This is essential in the follow-up of children with spina bifida. This way, they are dry and infection-free and can have a real social life by going to school and playing with friends.
The shunt is a fairly simple implant, needed to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid into the abdominal cavity. €47 is unaffordable in countries where simple farmers often earn less than €1 a day.
The surgeon uses an endoscope to make an opening in one of the ventricles of the brain, allowing the cerebrospinal fluid to leave and enter the bloodstream.
It is practically impossible to start life for children with spina bifida or hydrocephalus living in the South.
Support them – for everyone has the right to a humane existence.
Help children to have a worthwhile life.
Esther Milimo lives in Dar es Salaam and is a mother to a girl who was born with Hydrocephalus. Esther shares her story of how early treatment helped her daughter live a normal healthy life free of complications….
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The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, will sponsor the surgical and medical care for 100 children with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida at the Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI)….
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…After implementing the Water Well Project in KitongoSima village, the Desk and Chair Foundation extended their support by constructing a pipeline from the well and installing storage tanks for Kitongo HoH…
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