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Elvis NewloveAmponsah was born in February, 2014 in a village in Ghana. He has been diagnosed with a disease called retinoblastomain both eyes. Retinoblastoma is a rare type of eye cancerfound in children under the age of 5.In most cases, sufferers lose their vision in the affected eye(s).If left untreated for long, it could even spread to the brain and thus become life threatening.
As soon as Newlove was diagnosed with the disease, the father refused to take responsibility and abandoned him and the mother. The woman who lives below the poverty line and finds it difficult to make ends meet, could not do much to help her little boy. His condition has worsened to the extent that the right eye has been removed and replaced with and artificial eye. (This artificial eye which is removable is displayed in the mother’s palm in the photos). Similar fate awaits the left eye in the next few months if appropriate treatment is not sought.
Doctors have therefore recommended immediate treatment(chemotherapy, focal therapy or radiation therapy)in South Africa or Germany to save the left eye. The estimated cost is about 6,000 US dollars. How can this poor woman, who cannot even make ends meet, afford such a huge medical bill to save his son from total blindness?
I learnt of Newlove’s plight when I visited Ghana recently. I have been so touched by this little boy’s condition that I decided to create this campaign to raise funds to support the mother to seek the appropriate treatment to save his little boy’s left eye so that Newlove can lead a normal lifewith one eye.
Your donation, no matter how small, can help to secure the left eye of this little innocent child from Ghana who has already lost the right eye as a result of the disease and now uses anartificial eye.
Your support will help to ensure that this gorgeous little boy will
continue to see this
beautiful world.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Barbara
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