Wings & Wishes is so much more than the booking of a bus ticket or flight. We are the light in a dark tunnel for families navigating life with a sick child, taking away some of the stress and worry about traveling to medical care. Here are messages from 2 moms. We...
Imagine living in the rural town of Nqanqarhu in the Eastern Cape. Your little girl is diagnosed with biliary atresia and is in need of a liver transplant. Every month mom and child make the grueling 14-hour trip by bus to Johannesburg to meet with the transplant...
I am a single mom with three children. Their father has chosen not to be involved. My 11-year-old son, Joel, was born prematurely at 29 weeks, suffered a grade 3 and 4 intraventricular brain hemorrhage, among other complications, and as a result faces several...
Little Emetle lives in the rural Eastern Cape town of Maclear. She suffers from biliary atresia. Biliary atresia is a condition that affects an infant’s liver. Bile normally flows from your baby’s liver to their small intestine. But with biliary atresia, your baby’s...
Silobonile suffers from biliary atresia, a condition in infants in which the bile ducts outside and inside the liver are scarred and blocked. Bile can’t flow into the intestine, so bile builds up in the liver and damages it. The damage leads to scarring, loss of liver...
Araya lives in Richards Bay. For the past 4 years she has traveled monthly to Durban for a blood transfusion. Thus far Wings & Wishes funded 46 return trips! She suffers from thalassemia – an inherited blood disorder characterised by less oxygen-carrying...
