Caring folks in Etobicoke are raising funds on Go Fund Me to help a nine-year-old Jamaican girl obtain badly-needed emergency surgery.

More than $1,770 has been raised in a campaign to help Shania Vidal, who organizers claim, is in need of an urgent tonsillectomy operation. They are hoping to raise $10,000.

“Her condition is worsening each day which is impacting her breathing, sleeping education and everyday routines,” said fund organizer Joyce Valentine, who is from Etobicoke.

Valentine is the founder of Caring Hearts and Giving Hands, which helps children and families living in Jamaica facing hardship and difficulty.

She learned of Vidal’s condition from a teacher at Middleton Primary School, in St. Thomas, in rural Jamaica.

“Your help in anyway would give her a chance of living a normal young girls life, free from the challenges and difficulties associated with this illness,” Valentine wrote on social media
Her group plans to help Shania receive proper care so she can return to school and play with her friends.

“Our hope is to provide this operation for Shania so she can begin her new school year with the ability to hear, swallow and breathe and enjoy a life that a nine year old deserves,” Valentine said.

Doctors say patients who’ve had their tonsils and adenoids removed in childhood are at significantly increased long-term risk of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases.

Caring Hearts Helping Hands is a faith-based organization that provides support and assistance to people in the hopes of developing a sound, economic, and social foundation. With 25 employees and counting, the group obtain necessities needed for unfortunate families through education, employment, gifts, and other charitable means deem fit for the organization.

Each year they help hundreds of families by providing proper nutrition, housing, and education for a better future.

Donations to help Shania can be made on gofundme.com