Operation Hope – News Update

We are very very grateful and excited to share the news – Operation Hope, through our donors, raised $5,166.70 in January.

Those funds have been remitted to Iraq and achieved the following:

• 4 injections for haemophilia sufferer 11yo Rami
• Surgery to remove gall gladder for 51 year old Amsha who is still in hospital recovering
• Surgery to remove 2 hernias in 14 month old Ahmad
• Medication for 4 year old Muhamed who has had “water on his lungs”
• 10 injections to prevent thrombosis in an 8mth pregnant mother
• Surgery to remove metal plates in the femur of 4yo Rahaf who is now walking again
• Surgery and mastectomy for 46yo widow Raafa who is mother to 6 children
• Second surgery for Abdulmalik for reconstruction and plastic surgery of his right hand and arm, following serious injuries in airstrike last year in Mosul.

Thank you so much to all our generous donors who have made these operations and treatments possible.  Some of the children feature in the postcard posted above.

Please read the individual blogs on the cover page of our website for medical cases still requiring funding.

Exciting update Wednesday 31 January, 2018:

Our NGO friends Adventisthelp who built and operate the emergency field hospital in the Hassan Sham U2 camp have offered free medication from their pharmacy for Anhar.  So working as a team Anhar will receive the medication she so desperately needs for Free.  Our grateful thanks to Darya Mustafa, Dr Mustafa Ismael Jaff and Ahmed Fakhree.

Anhar is 10 years old and living in the Khazir camp 25kms east of Mosul.  Both her parents were killed in airstrikes in Mosul.  Anhar has 5 siblings all of whom are under the care of their 70+ year old grandmother in the camp.  The grandmother does not have any money for clothes or anything extra for her grandchildren.  They are surviving only on the food handouts at the camp.

Anhar has epilepsy and requires Tegretol 400mg and carbamazepine 200mg medication which costs USD150 per month.

Our team member, Darya Mustafa, is endeavouring to find the best discounted price for this medication.

So we are looking for approximately $A150 per month to cover the cost of Anhar’s medication for epilepsy.

One way to fund this monthly commitment would be for a donor or several donors to commit to making a monthly payment into the Operation Hope Account so that we can ensure Anhar has the medication she requires.

If you would like to donate on a monthly basis for Anhar please let me know your commitment by email: operationhopeaust@bigpond.com

One off donations can be accepted as well by clicking the donate button

I will visit this family in March and ensure that all the children receive a new set of clothing and anything else that we can provide at that time.  

Thank you for visiting this page and reading Anhar’s story.

Update Thursday 1 February 2018

I am so happy to share the news that Amsha has had a successful operation to remove her gall bladder.  The stone was huge and I am sure once Amsha has recovered from the operation she will be pain free.  Thanks to our friend Darya Mustafa, for being our man on the ground – organising transport, hospital tests and surgery.  This has been a great outcome and I am so happy that Operation Hope has been involved in this wonderful process.  Thank you once again to all our special donors.

Update: Sunday 28th January, 2018

We have been able to send USD400 to Iraq to fully fund the surgery, medication, checkups, tests, xray, food for 10 days in hospital and taxi back to the camp.  We are so thankful that Amsha can now have the life saving surgery she needs on Wednesday 31st January.  Doctors have given their time and skills FREE for this surgery.  Thank you to the kind and generous donors who made this life saving operation possible.

Update: Saturday 27th January, 2018

We are well on our way to funding this operation scheduled for next Wednesday 31st January.   We need USD150/AUD200 to reach our target.

Amsha is presently lying in her tent in Khazir camp near Mosul, suffering extreme pain from gall stones and urgently requires an operation to remove them.

Our team member in Erbil, Darya, has managed to organise FREE surgery for Amsha next week in a hospital in Erbil. But we need to urgently raise USD400 to cover the pre operation X-rays, tests and checkups, 2 meals a day in hospital for 10 days, medication following the surgery and a taxi fare to transport her back to the camp.

Please use the donate button on the Operation Hope cover page to help Amsha have the surgery she requires.

Update Wednesday 24 January, 2018

Ahmad has had a successful operation that has immediately decreased the pain he was living with on a daily basis.  His family are very thankful to our donors for their kindness and support to allow this operation to occur.

Update Monday 22 January, 2018:

Funding for Ahmad’s operation has been promised from an overseas donor.  Once the funds are received we will remit to Darya Mustafa to allow Ahmad to have the surgery to remove the two hernias.  We are so thankful for the generosity of the donor that will change Ahmad’s quality of life.   Watch this space.

Update 16 January:

Ahmad is two years old, has two hernias, is in constant pain and is living in a tent at the Hassan Sham U2 camp 25 kms east of Mosul. Today he was transferred by our Operation Hope team member Darya Mustafa to a hospital in Erbil for checkups and tests prior to surgery.

Darya has managed to negotiate a discounted price for the surgery that Ahmad requires. Surgery will now cost USD500 but with extra for medication, checkups, food will cost USD550.  Ahmad’s condition remains serious but surgery cannot proceed until we raise the money from donations.

Please consider donating to this urgent surgery.  Please also share this case with your family and friends.

Thank you.