A 13-year-old heart patient has returned from UK after recently receiving heart surgery through the ‘Chain of Hope’, a Charitable Organization in the UK.
Glen I. Bangura, a 13-year-old heart patient who suffers from congenital heart disease was flown to London recently to correct his pulmonary artery stenosis.

According to Theresa A. Johnson, Glen’s mother, their family owes it to several kind-hearted people who facilitated the operation at the Royal Brompton Hospital through the charity known as ‘Chain of Hope’. She narrated, “My husband and I have been writing extensively in the Papers requesting for help. My son’s condition was gradually detiorating whilst responses were quite slow. We eventually fell into the good hands of a very ‘Good Samaritan’ who prefers anonymity, who took up the bulk of the burden and connected us to the ‘Chain of Hope’. We are very thankful to that Good Samaritan for the kindness rendered.

Glen’s mother said the ‘Chain of Hope’ did very well to have paid for Glen and paid for their food and lodging including the first phase of his operation. She said the operation is known as catetherization. “Glen is to go for check-up in Dakar in three months, and six months, and then after a year”. According to her, she would thank SLOK AIR International for their assistance in always providing a ticket for Glen and/or his dad for his Dakar treatments.

Glen and the family are thankful to Lisa, Jane, and the entire ‘Chain of Hope’ family and their host whom they call Mama and Papa. Also a big ‘thank you’ go to their Stella Maris Parish headed by Fr Pius, Cssp., Dr David Levine from USA, and the RVTH, GRTS, City Limits and Point’s Management and many people whose names cannot be mentioned. Glen says, “May God provides for them especially my Grade 6 teacher, Sir Larry & Mates”.