Help Chidera's Daughter Overcome Heart Defects

"I just lost my son, who was going to be 8 years old, and now my only child and daughter needs urgent heart surgery. Please help save my daughter, she is all I have.

I never imagined 2025 will begin the way it started for me. I never thought that I would experience the unimaginable pain of losing my only son after a tragic complication from an intussusception (intestine sliding into another part of the intestine) surgery. His passing has left a hole in my heart that can never be filled. My heart feels like it’s breaking more each day. I have been alone, grieving, trying to survive, and just as I was learning to breathe again through my grief, life struck another cruel blow.

My 2-year-old daughter has now been diagnosed with Atrial Septal Defect (a hole in the heart). At birth, she had a Ventricular Septal Defect, which we had hoped would close, but it hasn't. She now has two holes in her heart, which the Doctors say require surgery. She is all I have left in this world. Her laughter, her little hands, her quiet strength are the only reasons I get out of bed each morning. I can’t lose her too. I just can’t.

I am a mother hoping that someone out there will hear my cry and help save my only daughter’s life. As much as I have tried to raise this amount on my own, I am falling short. I cannot do this alone. Please help me give my daughter a chance to live, chance to grow up. Help me give her the life my son never got to live. I cannot bear the thought of losing her, too. I am broken, desperate, and praying that someone will see my heart and help. Every single dollar, every share of this message, your prayers, every kind word, all matter more than I can ever explain. I would be eternally grateful." —Chidera

Hi, I am organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Chidera. All donations will go toward her daughter's medical care. Thank you for standing with her in this moment of grief and deep need.