Checking on Baby Donald Update February 6, 2025

On Monday John in Ghana had an operation to correct a condition that had been

causing him serious health problems for some time. Afterward he was so weak that

the doctors intended to keep him in hospital until Wednesday but as it turned out

they released him on Tuesday instead. He was still very weak and could barely

muster the strength to tell us he was home.

He was put on a strict diet and was told not to eat any solids. He was also given

prescriptions for drugs, some of which made him weak and sleepy.

John's home is some distance from Accra, where most of the people he has been

helping for P9 live. Yesterday while he was recovering he began to receive frantic

messages from Favour, one year old Donald's mother, begging for help. Donald was

sick, they had no food, and the landlord had locked them out of the room where they

had been staying for nonpayent of rent.

Despite his own condition, and despite the fact that he had just had surgery two

days before, John actually made the journey to Accra to help Favour and Donald. He

did what he could for them on such short notice and told them that he would arrange

to pay their debts and to get the child taken care of. Then he returned home to

continue his recovery.

Anyone who questions John's commitment to helping others might ask themselves if

they would have got off a sick bed when they got the call that someone needed them.

This is the kind of thing that makes us proud to work together with John to further

P9 and its mission of helping others.

Hopefully John hasn't set back his own recovery. We wish him the best.