donations needed for medical care

​Our goal is self-sustainment and not dependence. Unfortunately for some of these ladies it's two steps forward and four steps back. Would you please consider helping us with some medical expenses. In addition COVID has hit this village. We have huge needs right now and the health is deteriorating because TTWWK cannot meet the needs. Read on to find out more.

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The medical issues so overwhelm some families that everytime they get begin to get ahead they're hit again with health problems that they cannot even go to the hospital for and TTWWK cannot possibly begin to address or afford the bills. We just finished paying off the hospital for another bill this week.
Mary almost died last year, when she was hospitalized for her thyroid condition. She has a husband who's a drunk and comes and goes as he pleases. Sometimes he provides money for food and sometimes not. We paid the hospital bill last year and have continued to help with some medications, but cannot afford it all and neither can she so she has been without medication again for some time.
We decided to empower her two months ago so she could begin to provide for herself. She was doing good and getting her meds, with help from TTWWK. She found an organization that was going to do her surgery for her goiter and last month we contributed some money for the expenses to Kampala for the surgery.
Unfortunately, the organization wasn't legitimate and she ended up coming back, after spending most of the money for transportation for her and the person who would care for her while in the hospital. Hospitals do not provide food, medicines, blankets, etc. They tell you what you need for medicines and you go buy it at a pharmacy.
Mary is sick again and getting worse. COVID has reached the village she lives in. There have been two mysterious deaths of young people. But due to lack of funds there's never an autopsy to find out why.
Uganda just locked down this week, children sent home from schools, business, transportation coming to a near halt again.
Mary really needs to be seen, as well as some others in our ladies circle. We have a child of one of our ladies that has a huge painful lump on her side...but no money to be seen. I've been trying to save for some medical but other issues keep coming up. Right now I have $7.35 for medical.
We are so blessed in America. We will spend $50-$150 on one meal out, thousands on a vacation and so much more. This is not a guilt trip, but we really need to get these ladies and kids seen. I'm asking my friends for help. I'd like to raise $500-$1000 to help get through this next surge of COVID and be able to get some of these current medical needs addressed. I have spoken with a hospital that thinks they can do Mary's surgery for about $300, but we haven't even had the consultation yet.
Covid testing over there right now is $71 each. (we would like to test two right now)
Blood work for Mary for her thyroid is $50.
A doctor's consult for those that need it (3 people at the moment) is $3.00 each.
The daughter with the lump with the lump will probably need a scan, around $50 I think. Then who knows what treatment after that.
Then add medications on top of that: (for Covid right now Ivermectin is almost $12.00.) I'd like to get Zinc, Vitamin C, Vitamin D3 for preventative for our families and staff. Probably over $100 for everyone. $500 won't even cover it but we are so thankful for anything we can get. We need to move forward with these medical needs.
Think if your family was sick and you had no way to even pay $3.00 for a doctor visit, let alone treatment. It breaks my heart. We can help them. God has placed about 12 families in my life in Uganda and I cannot do it alone.
Thank you for considering this. You can read more on the photos.

This is Mary when I first met her. She was so sick and so thin.

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Her hospitalization in December. It took us several hours just to get something to bring her fever down. Alyssa was so concerned for her.

This was in March, a month after we empowered her. She was doing so good. She had put on weight and looked so good.