Hundreds of children, many with critical medical needs have passed through our baby feeding program. We have used individual appeals for the funds to provide critical surgeries This slows vital medical treatment. Jihadist warfare has displaced hundreds of thousands and has disrupted and overburdened services. We now have a Critical Needs fund with which to provide immediate treatment.
A tiny baby girl just returned from open heart surgery in Kenya to close a large hole between the ventricles of her heart. She would have certainly died otherwise.
Two babies are awaiting surgery. One baby boy entangled with his twin had both legs broken during delivery—he weighed less than two pounds. At five months he contracted meningitis. He recovered but then developed hydrocephaly. Emergency surgery has drained some fluid from his brain, but a shunt is needed to continuously drain fluid from his brain.
A baby boy had a blocked urethra that keeps his bladder from emptying. Emergency surgery made a temporary drain from his bladder through the wall of the abdomen. Constant contact with urine burns his skin and results in frequent urinary infections.
Critical surgeries range from a few hundred dollars to more than $5,000. Please consider contributing to Sheltering Wings/ Guizzetti Emergency Medical Fund. Anything helps. Thank you.
If you would like to become a ministry partner, tax-deductible donations may be made online at:
http://sheltering-wings.org/our-missionaries/#don
Or you can make checks payable to Sheltering Wings and attach a note that it is for "Guizzetti" and mail to:
Sheltering Wings, 5104 Old 66, Leasburg, MO 65535. (314) 635-6316.
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