Plaster Potential!

Today started out with a wonderful, useful beginning.  Special Hope Network is trying to use all the networking skills we possibly can to find and link up people with needs to the organizations that have services to meet their needs.  After asking everyone we met who has been here for awhile, and has needed any kind of help with walking, therapies, braces or supports, or any kind of rehabilitation after surgery or illness, we kept hearing the name “The Italian Hospital”.  So, we looked it up.  It is an orthopaedic hospital!  I also was given a name, “Isaac”, who makes braces, supports, and prosthetic limbs.

This morning I took a four-year old, and his Mom to the Italian Orthopaedic Hospital at 8 am, walked in, asked for Isaac, was directed to the Workshop, called for Isaac, and was heartily welcomed by 8:30!  All this with no appointment.  We aren’t in America anymore!  He put aside what he was working on, and took us to an examination room, and by 10:30 our little fellow had been interviewed, examined, casted, and fitted for supports!!!  Amazing.  This brings us to our first request of you, our reader.  This family earns approximately $5 per day.  Dad is a driver for a family, but hasn’t been paid yet this month, or last month.  Mom collects charcoal for cooking and sells it for about $5 each day.  They live in one of the homes I described to you earlier, cement block walls, dirt floor, in a compound, and have extra family living with them.  These supports will cost $150,000KW for each leg, so $300,000 KW for two supports, which is approximately $100.  Would you prayerfully consider covering the cost of these supports for this little guy who has so little?  He might also need new shoes, if the supports are too big for his current ones.  They would cost about $30.  If you are interested in donating toward this need, please give online, and write Supports for Boy in an email to our home email (currently the website ones aren’t working), which is magmolsam@gmail.com.  The family is encouraged, grateful, and fairly speechless. And, a boy who can’t walk, soon might be able to, which would open up the possibility of his attending school, and playing with his peers.

Who knew that the Networking part of our name would come in so handy, so soon?  I sure didn’t expect this.  I will try to post the video of the casting here, if I can.