Dani

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Dani is from the Karrada district in Baghdad. Due to the lack of basic preventative care in Baghdad, he suffers from abnormal swelling in his eyes that has threatened his eyesight on more than one occasion. His family tried to travel together to Amman, but his older brother and father were turned back at the border, leaving him alone with his mother in Jordan, with little means of support, since his father and brother are not able to provide sufficient remittances from their irregular work in Iraq.

Over the recent winter holiday, DAI paid for an urgently-needed laser eye surgery for Dani in order to save the vision in his right eye. Another organization had offered to perform the operation, but the time spent on their waiting list would have meant that Dani’s vision would have been lost, a common occurrence when waitlists for urgent treatment are too long. Funds to pay for Dani’s emergency surgery came from a special fund maintained by DAI for such events, when there is little time in which to respond.

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