Mercy's life changed when she got the medicine she needed.

Mercy lives in Kenya. One day, Mercy got really sick. She was so sick that she collapsed in her classroom. Because kids like you had fundraised to bring medicine and health care to her village, there were people to look after Mercy. She was diagnosed with malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and typhoid, but today she is better. When Mercy found out that kids like you had raised enough money to get medicine for her, she started to cry. Both of her parents had already died from AIDS, and she knew how much they had suffered. Mercy wants to live a long life and go to school. Because of you, today she has that chance.

Millions of other kids like Mercy live in East Africa. Many of them, like her, have lost their parents to AIDS. They don’t have the money to afford proper medical care or they live far away from hospitals.