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Hello World of good do'ers. I know you're big out there and I (we) need you! Let me tell you about Joy. Joy is a 20 year old girl and she is the daughter of one of the teachers that I first volunteered with back in 2008 in Western Kenya. Life is hard for everyone right now but in a country without job opportunities and insufficient healthcare, it's simply unfair. Joy has been struggling, unbeknown to her, with kidney disease. Her condition has finally landed her in a Nairobi hospital (she had been living with a cousin in Nairobi since last year) and she needs help, anywhere she can get it. She had to start emergency dialysis and has had several treatments over the past 8 days. I've lost a lot of sleep just feeling badly for her having to be alone and with very little information about what exactly she is battling. It's all very confusing for her having grown up in a simple and rural village deep off the main road that joins a couple small towns together near the Ugandan border. She's been scared and alone, and as if the current pandemic isn't enough to top it all off. She's not allowed visitors whatsoever and her mother is stuck in the village 8 hours away as roads are closed in Kenya right now anyways (county baracades to stop the spread). Right now Joy could be released from the hospital but in Kenya, an unpaid bill means you stay until it is paid. She has been told that she will need a permanent catheter for at least a year of dialysis and will then need a kidney transplant. The road seems long and impossible in a country like this but there is hope. You can pay into the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) at just USD 5/month and so we have already registered her. This fund covers dialysis treatment at good private hospitals here in Nairobi. However, she won't be able to access that fund for 2 months since she hadn't been utilizing it before. I would really like to see her fight through these two months to give her a standing chance at long term dialysis and hopefully, eventually, a transplant and a chance at a 'normal life'. I've talked to Joy several times over the phone, including just before I started typing here again. I really want to help her get out of the hospital and I'm hoping there are some people out there that can help. So I'm crossing my fingers and toes that some amazing humans out there can help us to cover further treatments as needed for this young lady with an otherwise bright future. As if poverty wasn't enough already.  I'll do my part as I'm based in Kenya myself and make sure she has the best she can get. I want to try to help her in finding a part time job and getting her into a better, private hospital for further treatment and eventually a transplant. None of this will be cheap. Please help. Let's fight for Joy, together!