I want to share a story with you. A testimony of a mother’s struggle, courage and faltering hope in the journey of caring for her child with a disability. Momma Keila gave birth to her daughter 16-months ago, during the height of the global pandemic. She was overjoyed at the birth of a beautiful baby girl, but the […]
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I remember the moment my eyes first gazed at Paulina – an 11-year old girl with Hydrocephalus in a rural village of Uganda. She smiled at me and despite my sinking heart of pain for her suffering – I smiled back. For the first 11 years of her life, Paulina never had access to neurosurgery
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Momma Jen was in her early twenties when she found herself pregnant. She was scared to tell her parents and the father about the pregnancy because she feared they would ask her to abort the child… When the time to give birth arrived, Momma Jen gave birth alone in a hospital. The doctors initially told
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At Imprint Hope, we strive to compose a string of words that accurately portrays the heroic joys, challenges and beauty of having a child with a disability in Uganda. A huge part of our work is follow-up visits with families, who have been discharged from Imprint Hope’s 7-week training course. Every couple of days, Imprint Hope’s staff
Everyday I’m vividly reminded of why Imprint Hope was sent to Uganda… some days the reminders are so subtle…like a beautiful mother-son interaction in the therapy room, a husband and wife resolving a conflict to better serve their child, a child with a disability smiling for the first time (I know this is hard to
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I had lost all hope… These are the words of one father, whose wife had recently run off, secondary to the fact that their child had disabilities. He was a peasant farmer and lived in a six by ten foot mud hut. His precious daughter, Shakira greatly struggles to feed herself, bathe, sit in a
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