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Children come to the CURE Niger children’s hospital to receive life-changing healing from disability. Many children arrive at our doors severely malnourished and need to be fed to attain a weight that is healthy enough for surgery, as well as fed following their operation to ensure recovery.
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Situation
In Niger, there are thousands of children with disabilities that could be cured through an operation. However, when children arrive at the CURE hospital, they are often very malnourished and are unfit for surgery. If the children can achieve a healthy weight to sustain an operation, they can then go on to go to school and escape a life of poverty. In resource-poor countries less than 10% of disabled children attend school and, in Africa, the disabled have a nearly 80% unemployment rate.
Solution
We aim to feed 1000 children so that they can attain the health and weight to sustain an operation and aid recovery. We provide three nutritious meals a day for our patients until they are fit for surgery and then during their week long stay in hospital. We also provide a meal for the child’s carer who stays with them in hospital and will give them both food during their follow-up appointments.