Beatrice is a single mother and lives with her two daughters (Josephine, 12 years and Maureen, 4 years) in Makina, a neighborhood in Nairobi with high poverty level and crime rate.

Three years ago her husband died from AIDS and left her and the children without any savings or property. Beatrice was infected with HIV by her husband and is on treatment, to delay the progress of the immune deficiency.

Since she is the only income source for the children it is like a race against time and she tries her very best to care for the family.

For several years she is suffering from a chronic skin ulcer on her right lower leg. It does not heal, is very painful and leads to a progressive swelling of the leg.

To generate some income Beatrice sells in the dirty roads of her neighborhood roasted corn. While doing this she stands for hours and hours what keeps the ulcer open and increases the pain to unendurable levels. She has no money to afford frequent changes of the bandage under hygienic condition and neither for pain medication. Her monthly income is approximately 30 Euro.

The only chance for a long lasting healing of the ulcer was in addition to pain therapy and early antibiotic treatment, sterile dressings changed on a regular basis by our nurse Dotty. After a long and patience-requiring treatment, this now finally succeeded, as the photo shows!

Thank you very much all TULISA donors!