Sylvia* found herself in desperate need of help, when her boyfriend abandoned her.

When she first connected with another ministry in Athens, Sylvia’s children were living with her mother in her homeland, while she was raising the youngest one in Greece. Because Sylvia couldn’t speak Greek, we helped her by scheduling all necessary tests and also arranged that she be monitored by a gynecologist.

Her first tests revealed that she might have been infected with the CMV virus, which can affect the development of a baby and at times is even fatal. To complicate matters, all her previous births had been caesarean sections, and another such surgery was extremely dangerous. Nevertheless, we managed to find her care in a public hospital by a team of experienced gynecologists. To everyone’s great relief—especially mom’s—an ultrasound revealed that the baby was developing normally! 

A month later Sylvia decided to leave Greece and moved to another country, where she soon gave birth to a healthy baby boy and the surgery had gone well! We are happy, because we stood by her side in one of the most difficult phases of her life!

*Names have been changed to protect the identity of those we serve.