As you still know from our call for donations last fall, Kenyan woman Helen Awuor suffered from a valvular heart defect resulting from a heart-muscle-inflammation during her childhood.
As a result she was suffering under low resilience and shortage of breath and in few years she would have been faced with the threatening death due to heart failure.

As you still know from our call for donations last fall, Kenyan woman Helen Awuor suffered from a valvular heart defect resulting from a heart-muscle-inflammation during her childhood. As a result she was suffering under low resilience and shortage of breath and in few years she would have been faced with the threatening death due to heart failure.

In that case her 4 children would have had to live without the care of their mother resulting into dropout from school, sacking out of their home and a poor life in misery without hope. After separation of her husband (who deceased in the meantime) in 1993, she has been living alone with her 4 children Janette (4 years), Phanice (9), Michael (13) and Judy (15) in one single room without water and energy in the infamous Kibera slum in the south of Nairobi. Her monthly income amounts to 40 to 60 €. She never would be able to afford the surgery needed.

However, Helen could be rescued with your help:

On July 9, 2010 she successfully went under surgery by an Indian heart-surgeon in the Mater-Hospital / Nairobi. The destroyed heart valves were replaced by artificial ones and the heart was able to operate normal again.

We visited Helen shortly after the surgery in the hospital and were able to see that for the first time after a long period of pain she could walk for a long while in the hospital-park without any hardship. And she really enjoyed it.

Even if her daily life will remain difficult and hard, thanks to your donations Helen will be able to master it with her new heart more easily.

A very warm thank you to all donors!