Lives Saved Spotlight

Radina Abdulgasim was only 27 years old and busy being a mother to two children when she started to notice strange swellings on the right side of her neck. At that time she was in the city of Khartoum in central Sudan. Before she knew it she would undergo four […]

Eman Gabriel Kuku is a 2-year-old whose family is from Dabakaya, Sudan. Her father explained that one morning, Eman woke up and was unable to get out of her bed. She couldn’t walk or move at all – she was essentially paralyzed. She was taken to the village pharmacy dispensary […]

Naira Amin is a young toddler who would have lost the ability to walk last year, had it not been for the help of Dr. Tom Catena and the staff of Mother of Mercy Hospital.   Her mother, Lubna, tells us about how, in December 2019, Naira began to experience […]

Meet Winnie, a 15-year-old girl living in the Bidi Bidi Refugee Camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world, which is located in Uganda, just across the border of South Sudan. Last year, Winnie discovered an enormous, painful tumor growing on the side of her face. She sought […]

Jalila Noah Jirada lives in Farandallah, a small village in South Sudan. Recently, Jalila experienced a terrifying situation that no expecting mother ever wants to go through: a premature birth. When Jalila was five-months pregnant with Nancy, she started to notice unusual things happening to her body, which she believed […]

When he was five years old, Mursi, a boy from Karkarai, Sudan, found an unnatural swelling near his abdomen. This swelling began to grow at an exponential rate, and no medicine could stop it. By the third visit to the local clinic, the nurses recommended transferring him to Mother of […]