December 2023:

This year has been filled with lots of changes for Emmanuella and her family. She is in school now, growing and playing with her peers. Glory started certified nurse assistant training on 12/4/2023. We still need to raise around $300 to pay for the rest of the training, supplies, uniform, and more. It would be great if we could raise over $500 this month to help with Christmas and birthday presents for the children, and for next semester's school fees as well. Every penny raised goes directly to supporting Emmanuella and her family with medical and school expenses.

Please share this fundraiser anywhere you can and help us spread the word this holiday season. Make a direct impact on the lives a a single mother and her two children!

Thank you to everyone who has donated and/or shared in the past, your prayers and help are life-changing.

URGENT UPDATE DECEMBER 2022:

Emmanuella is currently hospitalized with pneumonia and the bills are escalating. She needs medications and testing to keep her healthy. School fees are due soon and her brother, Destiny, also needs a surgical intervention (thankfully a more minor procedure that can be done in Nigeria). I would love to send a a financial gift to the family by the end of Dec 31, 2022, and need your support. The family needs roughly $1000 to cover these various expenses as well as the kids of wages due to the current prolonged hospitalization. Any little bit helps, and sharing is the best way to spread the story. Emmanuella continues to be a miracle, and a testimony to what modern medicine can do for children in a country that so often refuses to help children born with heart defects. Your support means so much to me and to this family. Thank you for donating and sharing!

Urgent July 15, 2021 update:

Emmanuella and her mother need to travel to Lagos by Monday, and the cost is around $250 USD. Please share and donate if you are able! Emmanuella has been growing stronger and healthier, eating everything, and standing on her own! She is still on daily medications which are quite expensive. Anything you donate goes directly to Emmanuella's care needs. Thank you all for contributing to support this precious family!

***December 23rd Update***

Surgery was a success! She has a second repair about 1 week after the initial surgery and recuperated very quickly. So quickly, they are ready to head home to Nigeria very soon! We were able to reschedule her initial return flight, and could use additional funds to pay for that expense. When you donate and share, funds will go directly to the flight expenses as well as additional Covid-19 testing, and the multiple heart medications Emmanuella will need to keep her heart healthy and strong. Thank you all for making this miraculous journey a reality!

***Important update!!*** The surgery has been completely funded by a Rotary organization in Mumbai, and Gift of Life International is financing the international travel! Visas are in hand, and flights are being booked for later this week!! Emmanuella is on her way to have her heart repaired very soon! We are still in need of funds for an extended hotel stay in Lagos this week, testing for Covid-19, and other travel related expenses. All donations go directly to the family to cover their specific needs at this time, and will help cover medication after surgery as well. ***Please continue to donate and share during this critical time!***

Emmanuella is a little girl born in Nigeria with a complex congenital heart defect called Truncus Arteriosus. She is in urgent need of open heart surgery to place a contegra conduit in her heart to correct her blood flow. Her story has touched my heart because my daughter was born almost 11 years ago with the very same heart defect. As a mother, I could not sit by and watch this child miss out on a chance at life just because she was born in a country without a pediatric cardiac surgery facility. Glory, Emmanuella's mother is working tirelessly to get her daughter the lifesaving treatment she deserves. Originally, Fortis Hospital in India agreed to take on Emmanuella's case for surgical intervention, however the surgery will now take place at SRCC Children's Hospital in Mumbai, India. I am working with several charitable organizations to coordinate transportation and arrangements in India as well as Nigeria. This situation is extremely urgent and your donations are critical! Please share this story and make a difference in the life of one little girl.