Lewis was just 2 years old when his mother noticed a small swelling in his abdomen. She took him to a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was diagnosed with an inguinal hernia, but as a single mother of three children, she could not afford to pay for the surgery. As Lewis got older, the pain he experienced worsened. Operation Blessing was able to get him the surgery he needed through our life-changing surgery program. Today his hernia has been repaired.
Another patient, Chepogh, was milking a camel when a stick injured her right eye. A mother and farmer in a remote village of Baringo County, she only had enough money to purchase pain killers. Left untreated, she lost vision in the eye and could not continue to work her farm. Through the life-changing surgeries program, Operation Blessing was able to provide the surgical treatment she needed to restore the vision in her right eye!