Help Evelyn get a kidney & a home for an infant

My name is Dr. Richard Jesus Garibay Ed.D. and I am the Operations Director of Pope Francis School and Health Centre (PFSHC) 501(c)(3) NGO, located in Ghana West Africa (popefrancisschool.org). 

 1-Evelyn is a 14-year-old girl who is in critical need of a kidney transplant. I met her on June 4th, 2021 while visiting sick children at the Trafalgar hospital in the Volta region of Ghana. In the parking lot I heard a man desperately praying and crying. I asked what was wrong and he told me that his daughter had kidney failure and they did not have the money to start dialysis. The father is a subsistence farmer who makes a merger $70 a month and the cost to start the first dialysis treatment was $500 dollars, which needed to be paid upfront. When our outreach team entered the hospital ward, we saw Evelyn suffering and dying as the country’s health care system did not cover dialysis for chronic kidney failure. Our organization immediately paid for the treatment with the hope that the kidney function would improve, but unfortunately the damage was irreversible.

Currently, there is one dialysis unit in the region that is over a 4-hour drive from Evelyn’s home, and for the last three months she has been in the hospital. Due to overcrowding she is placed in the adult female ward, and the combination of seeing people die around her has caused intense depression and anxiety. She tells me all the time that she wants to go back to school. Since Ghana does not have a kidney transplant capacity, we are planning for an affordable but high-quality procedure in India. I have corresponded with doctors in India and a price of $35,350 will cover the matching of donors, surgery and current travel cost to India.


2- A house for Philippine and her baby Senam who are living under a mango tree (Cost:$5,720)

Philippine is a mother with epilepsy who with her infant Senam have been rejected from local housing due to social stigmatization and are living under a mango tree. The baby has contracted malaria twice, which is the primary cause of under-five infant mortality in the country. Our goal is to build a small concrete structure costing $5,720 to move them out from under the tree.