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‘Women Reaching Out’ assists 11-year-old
The 11-year-old St. Angela’s Primary School student, who needed
Stayers hands over the cheque to Paula Cottam
financial aid to fly to Trinidad and Tobago for an eye surgery, yesterday received $100,000 from a Non-Governmental-Organization, Women Reaching Out (WRO).
Yesterday, Pamela Stayers, a representative from the NGO, handed over the cheque to 11-year-old Paula Cottam of lot 127 Trench Road, East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown.
She said that her organization, for the past 10 years, has been reaching out to women and children in need of financial assistance. To that, she added that WRO activities and projects are financed through fund-raising activities.
Paula Cottam visited Kaieteur News with her doctor’s statement which clearly indicated that she was diagnosed with having “a complicated cataract with a blind right eye” since she was seven years old.
Recently, she was also diagnosed with “Inferior Retinal Detachment with macula involvement with Development Cataract” in her left eye.
A local doctor had advised that Paula Cottam needs to be evaluated by a vitreo-retinal surgeon. That service is not available in Guyana, so a doctor in Trinidad has been consulted and the little girl is required to be in the twin-island republic on April 18, where she will be examined by Dr. Bruno A. Mitchell.
The approximate cost of the surgery is US$3,300 and the Ministry of Health has assisted the family with US$2,000.
The little girl’s father, Paul Cottam, who has been suffering from cataract in both eyes for almost six years, yesterday thanked the NGO for their contribution.
He said that the contributions he received so far from kind hearted Guyanese will at least prevent his daughter from suffering the same fate he did.
“I would like to thank all the businesses, private individual and other persons who have assisted in raising funds for my daughter,” the visually impaired father stressed.
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