EMERGENCY POST

This is a very difficulty post to write, and I have been wondering for the last 20 hours on what to put. I’m sat in my office today knowing that for the next few days I will be sat in the Paediatric ICU at Aga Khan hospital with our boy Peter Ochieng.

Peter needs a serious operation around his brain and fast. We thought we had more time to prepare for this, but unfortunately nature has not allowed so and we need to move quickly. I have copied a link below which takes you to 2 documents which you can download. One is a short profile about who Peter is and the other is Medical profile which explains how we have got to this point.

I can’t explain how stressful life has been these last few weeks, and particularly dealing with Peter medical issue. I have questioned myself a lot on how we can deal with this situation. Right now we need to raise £180,000 to buy land for our future development for the home, we also need to find sponsorship for 170 children. With all the pressure of that I now need to find funds to provide for Peter’s urgent medical care. I don’t want to take away from fundraising for the land and for child sponsors and I would ask that if you were thinking of helping us with the land or sponsoring a child that you go ahead with that. This is extra, this is not about us as a Childrens Home, this is about a 12 year old boy, from Kenya, an orphan who has cancer and a brain tumour. If you want to find out more and possibly want to help please download these files and read them. Currently I am exhausting all my funds in my bank accounts to pay for his medical expenses, what choice do I have, at the moment if I don’t there is no other money. But my funds are running out fast. We need help, I need help, Peter needs help.

I am sorry for not updating this blog sooner, I’m sorry I have not replied to messages people have sent. I’m just treading water and trying to stay afloat. Please have patience and please forgive. But for now the focus is on Peter, he is actually the boy in the blue Tshirt in the photo on the right (from 2007). Here is the link:

http://www.box.net/shared/hvhkrjx6hc