SUCCESS STORIES
The following children are feeling much better because of you and your generous donations towards life-saving surgery. On behalf of the kids, thank you.
Through awareness campaigns, Links Preschool, and daily contact with at risk communities, Links is able to identify children with serious, often fatal medical conditions. Below is a sampling of the children Links has been able to support through donations. The outcomes of their quality medical treatment are incredible. Links connect families with medical treatment, and supports and advocates for these underserved families during the entire medical treatment process; from identification and diagnosis, to appropriate hospital/doctor identification, to surgery fundraising, to attending all doctors appointments, to after surgery care and necessary follow up. It is time consuming and often exhausting work for everyone involved, but the outcome is literally life changing.
PLEASE CONSIDER SPONSORING LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL CARE FOR A CHILD. EMAIL LINKSCHARITABLETRUST@GMAIL.COM FOR TRUST ACCOUNT DETAILS.
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Recent success stories
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Fatima, a 4 month-old baby girl
When Links was asked to help, Fatima was a 4 month-old baby girl born in a blue tent in Munnekolla. She was dehydrated and had been sick for 10 days. Links encouraged the family to take her to a local emergency room, but the family was new to Bangalore, and was afraid. Concerned that the baby would die before her arrival at a government hospital, Links took her to the closest hospital, which was private and expensive.
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Mariyam, a toddler from Munnekollal
In June 2018 Mariyam, a toddler from Munnekollal waste management site diagnosed with a congenital and often fatal heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, had successful surgery to repair her heart. After a short stay in the hospital, she was released to a temporary shelter where she recovered in sanitary and healthy conditions. Now that her heart is fixed, she never sits still! Her parents jokingly complain about the fact that she is constantly running.
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Noamia, 14 month old girl
While working in a migrant camp in Nagawarapalya, the Links Team met Noamia and her parents. Noamia was a 14 month old girl whose parents kept her mostly at home because she was born with a clef palate, which meant that the entire family was socially ostracized. Noamia was significantly malnourished; her open palate was preventing her from being able to successfully eat or drink.