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How These Two Brothers Fighting Leukemia

Matt Roberts

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Life takes its toll on humans. As we go through life, the good and the bad affects our bodies. But all this depends on how we slant it.

Two brothers, Faris and Firoz have been battling Leukemia since their early age.

Faris was diagnosed with leukemia in 2015, bone marrow is the factory for new blood cells and immune cells. In a transplant, bone marrow is wiped out with chemotherapy and sometimes radiation. At his young age of 9 years he managed to go for 20 chemotherapy cycles, but his family could not conceal for the remaining 4 cycles of chemo.

Early 2018, Firoz, the younger brother started having frequent infections with persistent high fevers. Baby Firoz at 2 years of age suffered broken arms and legs without getting involved in any sort of accidents. It raised an alarm to the doctors in Mombasa immediately as he also had several swollen nodes on his neck and head it is then the results came out as having LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA same type as his brother. He was then immediately referred for a cancer specialized treatment on cancer management abroad. It is a shock in the family with two siblings suffering from the same disease.

An analysis of more than 30 years of research has revealed the underlying cause of the most common form of Leukemia in children. Research compiled in Nature Reviews Cancer suggest that acute lymphoblastic Leukemia occurs by a two-step-process-first, a mutation occurs in the fetus and a second mutation, later in life and triggered by infection, spurs the cancer to develop.

“Cancer journey goes beyond the treatment. It’s about care and affection. It’s about who walks with you on that battle field. Whether you win or lose, you are still a victor because that’s where the intermission begins.” – Jimia Yusef Abdul, Secretary General at Fadlcarda Leukemia Foundation

“Cure” is not often a word associated with diseases like leukemia. But for Mombasa resident Jimia, there had to be a way to support these brothers. After setting up a campaign on donations based crowdfunding platform M-Changa, the community generously supported the campaign contributing KSH. 295,683 for Faris and KSH.1,054,207 for Firoz. Miraculously, the boys were able to receive treatment and are now on maintenance.

As we’re all too familiar, large expenses such as medical and funeral costs come at unexpected times, making them almost impossible to plan financially and creating the need to fund-raise from family, friends and even strangers.

M-Changa is a Kenyan online fundraising / digital harambee platform. M-Changa was launched in 2012 to make fundraising more convenient, more efficient and more secure than the traditional harambee. To date, 30,000 fundraisers have raised millions of dollars from over 350,000 contributors.

To learn more about M-Changa kindly visit www.changa.co.ke or contact their Customer Care on: 020 765 0919, support@changa.co.ke

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