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Sackie Nyanquoi has become known as a ‘man without a face’ and he is pleading for help to be able to get one.
At age eighteen, the Liberian youth’s nightmare began back in 2008, when armed robbers attacked his parent’s residence, wasted acid water on his face to begin his battle to restore his face.
The night of his nightmare, Sackie said he was home asleep.
In what is described as a ‘fatal recall, Sackie explained his ordeal as follows:
“When I woke from sleep,” he said, “one of them (armed robbers) wasted raw acid water on me.”
He continued, “It was like real fire when the acid wasted on me.” Since then life has not been the same.
The acid disfigured Sackie’s face, his chest and neck that even to turn his neck now is an impossible and an enviable task to perform.
And yet he has found a way to hope, explaining his appeal in a cry for help:
“I really want to go back to school,” the young man pleaded, according to a pamphlet, released recently, during the celebration of Delta Liberia Day. “I’m asking all Liberians all over the world to help me.”
Six different surgical procedures have yielded some relief, and now a major surgery is planned which would cost between USD$25,000 and USD$75,000, according to Dr. Bartum Kulah of Atlanta, who has been so compassionate about Sackie’s desperate situation.
Dr. Work, of Atlanta Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (APRSC), the paper said has agreed to perform the first few stages for a retainer fee of $30,000.00. Therefore a special appeal goes out to all Liberians and friends of Liberia. If 1000 Liberians would donate $30, we would have the minimum amount required to do the first stage.
“Sackie now needs to undergo multiple plastic surgeries which can only be performed abroad,” Dr. Kulah said.
“I’m really suffering,” Sackie, now in Liberia, laments his situation, “this is not how I looked and I can feel very bad whenever I see myself in the mirror.”
Many Liberians and others have come to help, contributing their widow’s mite, to support the global effort to help the young man but it is not enough.
Sackie said, “Please I need the help of everybody, anybody.”
Non-profit Concern For Humanity is leading the appeal to generate the needed funds to restore Sackie’s face and give him another chance at life, and all those touched with Sackie’s story should make their voluntary donations by contacting Dr. Work at 404-885-9675, and you can mail your donation to: APRSC, One Baltimore Place, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30308.
You can also call Dr. Bartum Kulah on 770-979-8799 and email him at: kulahb@bellsouth.net
Concern For Humanity, the pamphlet said, was established by Dr. Francis Karpeh, and like-minded unnamed physicians, to serve the humanitarian needs of people in the Third World.
According to information on Sackie’s website, he expresses his gratitude to everyone, and you are urged to call him at 011-231-660-5712, to give him words of encouragement at the J.F.K Hospital where he is admitted, and is excited to receive calls.
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