Above: Haju was blinded by shrapnel and a traumatic cataract, both as a result of a landmine explosion. Photo: CBM.
CHILDREN OF WAR NEED YOUR LOVE AND HEALING
Haju was blinded when a landmine exploded. Donatia was raped, shot and left for dead by militia. The future for these two children, from their wounds alone, looked bleak.
Haju's Story
When Haju from Afghanistan was nine years old, a landmine exploded. The blast embedded shrapnel into his right eye, and caused a traumatic cataract to form in his left eye. He was blind.
So often in conflict situations it is the children, especially those who have a disability, who are the most vulnerable. With so many children exposed to conflict and hurting, it is now more than ever, that they need help - and they need to be shown love.
What Haju needed more than anything else was sight-restoring surgery and tender, loving care.
Thankfully, someone did help Haju - but there are so many other children with disabilities who need your help too.
Somebody just like you funded his medical care.
Haju and Donatia are just two of many children who are thrown into conflict, facing a near impossibile struggle to survive with their disability. Haju and Donatia were fortunate to receive medical help and loving care, but we need you to partner us in this life-changing work because together we can do more.
You can change the lives of these children of war.
- For £20, you can GIVE SIGHT to a parent with cataract.
- For £30, you can treat a child with an early case of CLUBFOOT
- For £60, you can EDUCATE a child with a disability for three months.
- For £90, you can give a child with cataract, the GIFT OF SIGHT.
- For £180, you can give TWO children ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT
So if you can, please help CBM by donating online - the fastest and most secure method to give the gift of love and healing.
