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Benschop Foundation makes donation towards child’s surgery
Foundation CEO, Mark Benschop, presents the cheque to Malika Hercules
The Benschop Foundation yesterday donated $100, 000 towards the surgeries needed by Malika Hercules, a child who was born with a cleft palate and dismorphic facial features.
Her condition was made worse by a complicated delivery and use of forceps, resulting in cranial damage to the right side of her head.
Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Mark Benschop explained that the entity had previously made donations to Hercules in the form of cash, books and other school supplies.
Benschop told this newspaper that a United States-based Guyanese, and member of the Benschop Foundation, Odel Taitt, had met Hercules when he was last in Guyana.
Her story touched him and he, along with other donors from both Pennsylvania and Washington, secured the money, which they sent to the Foundation.
Thus far, the surgeries Hercules underwent have been successful, but more are needed. Apart from the donation from the Benschop Foundation, the Ministry of Health and a private donor have contributed some US$6,000.
Hercules’s next surgery involves coronal scar revision and Cranioplasty. This surgery will apparently be scheduled when full payments for the surgery can be paid. A further US$12,475 is still required.
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