Obstetric Fistula, Ethiopia Restoring Dignity and health
Obstetric fistula is a childbirth injury affecting thousands of young girls as young as 11 -18 who marry and get pregnant at a very young age, leaving a devastating impact on their lives. In cases of obstetric fistula, the baby usually dies, and the young girl or woman is left incontinent, unable to stop the flow of urine running down her legs. She is often abandoned by her husband and family, and ostracized by her community.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than two million women are living with fistula in developing countries and an additional 50,000 to 100,000 new cases occur each year. These are mostly young, poor, illiterate women and girls living in remote areas.
In Africa, two wonderful hospitals in Nigeria and Ethiopia are working with afflicted young girls and women, transforming their lives with a simple surgery.
If you would like to be an Angel and give a young girl back her life through surgery, the average cost of surgery for one woman, including post-operative care and follow-up support, is only $340. The success rate is 90%.
Please watch this extremely moving video and help us help these girls "to walk to beautiful".
White Lodge Center provides support for children and young people with cerebral palsy or similar disability in the Surrey area. These kids have physical and learning disabilities, and difficulties with communication. Sadly, for most families, there is little support to which they can turn to for help.
White Lodge is an incredible resource for these families. Its flexible, creative, and integrated range of holistic services includes education, plus physical, speech and language therapy.
These services have a huge impact on the children's confidence and abilities as well as on their families. To watch children flourish and achieve their maximum potential in an environment in which they feel comfortable, settled and satisfied is awe-inspiring.
The center aims for early intervention whenever possible, which means some children may be only a few months old.
Global Angels Ambassador, Chesney Hawkes, regularly visits and supports White Lodge . If you would like to be an Angel and support this project by giving towards physiotherapy and hydrotherapy equipment, click on Donate and give.
4Life and CCD, Thailand supporting abandoned disabled children
In Thailand, many children born with disabilities such as cerebral palsy or more minor disabilities such as a cleft pallet are abandoned by their parents.
Due to poverty, cultural and religious beliefs, and the stigma surrounding disability in Thailand, many of these children are abandoned outside government orphanages where they are likely to spend the rest of their lives. Living in appalling conditions, many of these children exist in an environment where the most basic human needs of physical touch, care, and stimulation are simply not provided.
After winning ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, Lydia George together with James and Esther Treasure, set-up 4Life, to support children in Thailand that are abandoned because of their disabilities.
4Life runs Day Care centers, a community-based care program, and a home and school for disabled children and orphans.
If you would like to be an Angel and support these precious kids, click the Donate button and give.
Sebastians trust children with life limiting illness
One of the greatest needs a family has during their last months together, when a child has a life limiting illness, is to have time alone outside the hospital environment, in a place where they can have fun and family closeness.
Sebastian's Action Trust, founded by Jane Gates, is building a respite home for families with a child with terminal cancer. Jane’s own 11-year-old child, Sebastian, died in 2003 after a two and a half-year battle with cancer.
The land for the home has been donated, and money has been raised to build a residence where a family can have a few weeks holiday together in the countryside where all their needs are provided for.
Global Angels is standing with Jane to help equip the house for the first families coming to stay and would like to raise $40,000 for this project.
If you would like to be an Angel and help provide something very special for the families in England with a child with terminal cancer click Donate and give.
100% of your donation will be given to the Trust to help equip the new house.
