Mary Grace Artillo is 9 yrs old. She lives with 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Her mother sews rags to sell and her father works as a company Guard. Unfortunately, Mary Grace was born with some birth defects, therefore she only has one leg. Since her Family in the Philippines is living below the poverty line, they can’t afford to get a good prosthesis for their little girl.

With the support of Joshua Care International and the Generosity of kind people at Kings church, Caloundra and Springwood House of Praise, Mary Grace is now in Australia, accompanied by Israel Forbes, the JCI coordinator, Philippines. Mary Grace has had her first assessment at Brisbane Prosthetics & Orthotics, where Stuart Crampton will create her new prosthetic leg. Unfortunately it was noted she has some bone protruding thru the skin and this will require an operation. Mary Grace has been seen by Dr Pincus at the Wesley Hospital and he is kindly arranging the operation.

Meanwhile, Mary Grace has enjoyed meeting her sponsors and was very excited to see the Kangaroos and Koala’s at Dreamworld.

A Gospel Concert “Steps of Grace”, has been organised for the 16th of May 2008 @ 7pm at the Springwood House of Praise, to help raise the extra funds required for her operation.

Sincrely,
Sharon Del Valle

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