Children in the Philippines who live in extreme poverty lack access to quality healthcare. They are often denied assistance and are unable to afford necessities to improve their quality of life.
Zhanarah Snow is a 1.5-year-old girl in the Philippines. She has been diagnosed with Epilepsy, Global Development Delay, Hydrocephalus, and Lissencephaly Pachygyria. (see definition below)
Last year her parents got worried because of her persisting cough, which left her in pain and sometimes even caused seizures. After a year of numerous medical examinations and hospital visits, Zhanarah was diagnosed with Pneumonia.
Doctors have prescribed Zahara medications to relieve her cough, but after some time of improvement, her condition typically worsens again, leaving her parents confused and scared for her life.
The parents are doing their best to get some help for their baby girl, but they can barely make enough to survive. The family doesn’t even have a ceiling over their head - they only have a roof supported by a branch and have to hang up their clothes on that branch when it rains to prevent the house from flooding.
Fortunately, the doctors prescribed the family a new medication to help Zhanarah breathe. But to receive this life-saving medication, Zhanarah, and her parents need your help. The family is already in debt, they are trying to save up and find money by all means possible, and they have reached out to Maya’s Hope for support. And today, this family needs you. Can we count on your donations for Zhanarah?
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Lissencephaly (agyria or smooth brain) is a rare congenital anomaly representing an arrest of brain development before the third or fourth month of gestational age. It may occur alone or in association with many other syndromes.