A stitch in time, they say, saves nine and if this situation is stitched now, it will not only save the life of someone but will enable this innocent child remove the yoke of isolation and stigmatisation associate with him.
Such is the unfortunate predicament facing 10 year old Abdul Gafaru Ibrahim, a grade 5 pupil of Jantong Daashie school in the Presbyterian Farmers’ Training and Child Development Program of CCFC. Although he is not a sponsored child, he is in a sponsored school assisted by CCFC.
The third child of five children still manages to go to school even though he has had this condition for the past six months. It started as a small lump on his left cheek one early morning and has been growing bigger and bigger by the day. It is suspected to be a tumor although it has not been confirmed by medical experts yet. CCFC only got wind of it during a routine visit to sponsored children in his school.
‘I have lots of pain and difficulty in breathing’, he says. ‘I can’t eat much because I have pains when I eat and so I have started growing lean.
Wiping tears from his eyes, Gafaru reveals that he is able to take the pain and inability to eat but what he cannot stand is the isolation he now faces as a result of the ever growing lump in his cheek. ‘My mates now insult me and some are now afraid of me whiles some despise me. I used to walk to school with my friends and come back home with them but now they don’t bother to ask of me when going to school or when coming home. This has retarded my academic performance altogether. I sometimes don’t feel like going to school anymore’, he says.
‘I used to like playing ball with my friends but now I only watch from the sides as they play ball and I used to like singing a lot but now I can’t sing at all’, Gafaru adds. ‘I am appealing to anyone who can assist me get rid of this pain to come to my help so I can rejoin my friends in school as a happy boy’.
His father, Ibrahim Suley who is a farmer, says he can raise about GHC 50 and is appealing to CCFC or any philanthropist to come to the aid of his son. So far CCFC through its partner, PFTCDP, is spending a substantial mount of money to send him for a medical check up as a preliminary step.
Such is the unfortunate predicament facing 10 year old Abdul Gafaru Ibrahim, a grade 5 pupil of Jantong Daashie school in the Presbyterian Farmers’ Training and Child Development Program of CCFC. Although he is not a sponsored child, he is in a sponsored school assisted by CCFC.
The third child of five children still manages to go to school even though he has had this condition for the past six months. It started as a small lump on his left cheek one early morning and has been growing bigger and bigger by the day. It is suspected to be a tumor although it has not been confirmed by medical experts yet. CCFC only got wind of it during a routine visit to sponsored children in his school.
‘I have lots of pain and difficulty in breathing’, he says. ‘I can’t eat much because I have pains when I eat and so I have started growing lean.
Wiping tears from his eyes, Gafaru reveals that he is able to take the pain and inability to eat but what he cannot stand is the isolation he now faces as a result of the ever growing lump in his cheek. ‘My mates now insult me and some are now afraid of me whiles some despise me. I used to walk to school with my friends and come back home with them but now they don’t bother to ask of me when going to school or when coming home. This has retarded my academic performance altogether. I sometimes don’t feel like going to school anymore’, he says.
‘I used to like playing ball with my friends but now I only watch from the sides as they play ball and I used to like singing a lot but now I can’t sing at all’, Gafaru adds. ‘I am appealing to anyone who can assist me get rid of this pain to come to my help so I can rejoin my friends in school as a happy boy’.
His father, Ibrahim Suley who is a farmer, says he can raise about GHC 50 and is appealing to CCFC or any philanthropist to come to the aid of his son. So far CCFC through its partner, PFTCDP, is spending a substantial mount of money to send him for a medical check up as a preliminary step.
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