Thalassemia Charity Drive.
$100 of $25,000 raised
This pot-bellied seven-year-old is the textbook picture of a patient with Thalassemia Major. He is pale, small in weight and stature. He comes from a village near Peshawar, Pakistan. He is a product of consanguinity; his parents who both have the trait, are first cousins. He is a happy and outgoing child when he has had a blood transfusion, but the perkiness fades after about two weeks when he begins to lay around most of the time. Because of his frail condition, he is not attending school at this time. He highlights the need for a large network of counsellors near and far in the province and the rest of Pakistan and Asia. In the rest of the world, Thalassemia is not so rampant because of premarital screening and counselling. With your support and contribution, we will be able to achieve that.