Medical Care Gift (Digital download)
Although we have a nurse at both the mobile projects and the Interim Care Centre, she is unable to treat everything. Sometimes we need to get hospital treatment for the children depending on the severity of their illness. This gift provides the life saving treatment that the street child may need. You are literally saving a life. This gift would be perfect for any nurses, doctors or any other medical practitioners.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
Although we have a nurse at both the mobile projects and the Interim Care Centre, she is unable to treat everything. Sometimes we need to get hospital treatment for the children depending on the severity of their illness. This gift provides the life saving treatment that the street child may need. You are literally saving a life. This gift would be perfect for any nurses, doctors or any other medical practitioners.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
Although we have a nurse at both the mobile projects and the Interim Care Centre, she is unable to treat everything. Sometimes we need to get hospital treatment for the children depending on the severity of their illness. This gift provides the life saving treatment that the street child may need. You are literally saving a life. This gift would be perfect for any nurses, doctors or any other medical practitioners.
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
How your gift has helped Laughter Africa children in the past year:
On Tuesday 9th April, we received some sad news. Two of the boys we support Alpha James and Sallu were in a serious vehicle accident. Sadly Alpha James died instantly. Sallu was in critical condition. Sallu and Alpha were joined at the hip-they were best friends and did everything together.
As soon as we heard the news, our nurse Rebecca and myself rushed to Sallu and took him to hospital for treatment. It was touch and go for a while if he would make it. Your donations saved his life!!! He stayed in the Interim Care Centre for a while afterwards to continue his medical treatment. We also bought him clothes as his own clothes were covered in blood.
On the way to Alpha James’s funeral a few days later, we passed the site of the accident. The ruins of the truck still remained at the side of the road -the truck was completely pulverized. It’s a miracle that Sallu survived the accident. Only him and one other man survived out of seven passengers.
We have known Sallu since 2019. He is 19 years old and he went on the streets in 2016 after his dad and step mum maltreated him. Sallu has been through a lot recently. In January his mum died in a car accident. And then he lost his best friend Alpha. Only a few months later, Sallu had to sit the WASCE (the Sierra Leone equivalent of A-levels) which was not easy for him after all the trauma he had suffered this last year. The good news is that in October 2024, Sallu received his exam results and he got the results he needed to attend university. He will be applying next year.
Sallu said, “Thank you so much for you all your prayers and thoughts. I still have no idea why Allah spared me. But I promise I will make a difference in my life. I want to be a lawyer and I promise that I will honour Alpha and Wurie everyday by my actions. I will never forget them and what they meant to me. Thank you for paying for my medical treatment. I would be dead if it wasn’t for Laughter Africa."