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...
We would like to introduce you to an incredibly special boy, 14-year-old Kyle. As his mom does not have a medical aid, she attended the local clinic during her pregnancy, but she did not have a scan done. When Kyle was born the doctors noted some abnormalities but was...
Oreokame lives in Kuruman in the Northern Cape. In 2016 he was diagnosed with Fanconi Anaemia – a rare disease that mainly affects the bone marrow. Oreokame’s health condition is impacting his family. Emotionally his mom is drained, but she keeps strong for his sake. ...
In December 2006 Gaylene was one of the first children transported by Wings and Wishes. At the time she was only 11 months old and was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma. As there was no paediatric oncology unit in Port Elizabeth, she travelled to Red Cross Hospital for...
