{"id":10020715,"date":"2023-07-27T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/uncategorized\/abdulahi-from-jijiga-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:46:21","slug":"abdulahi-from-jijiga-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/cleft-children\/abdulahi-from-jijiga-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdulahi from Jijiga, Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abdulahi is the first child of his mother Nasra. After his birth, she doesn\u2019t get the chance to rejoice wholeheartedly about her first child: a cleft lip and palate<\/a> mark Abdulahi\u2019s face. Worries about how to get him the help he now needs overshadow the young family\u2019s everyday life. What should they do?<\/p>\n\n

For many years, no help is to be found: Abdulahi is already six years old when he shows up to our very first relief mission in Jijiga, Ethiopia<\/a> with his mother and grandmother. Six years with his untreated cleft. Mama Nasra cries as she recounts how her child suffers from the ridicule of other children and exclusion.<\/p>\n\n

We of course want to help the little family! Abdulahi immediately conquers the hearts of our mission team. Our help in Ethiopia is still in its infancy. We do not yet have a local doctor with the necessary professional training to provide the care. Instead, our dear friends, the highly experienced surgeons from our project in Bangladesh<\/a>, have volunteered to come on this mission. In a first step, they finally close the boy\u2019s cleft palate. But he still needs a second surgery for his lip! We promise the family that we will come back soon and make Abdulahi\u2019s lip surgery possible as well!<\/p>\n\n

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