Pledges of help pour in for young boy with rare disease

• Offers to help Stanley streamed in from Nation readers both locally and abroad.
• Dr Micheni said the condition, neurofibromatosis, is a congenital disease that is hereditary.

Many readers offered to help the boy seek medical help while other offered financial assistance.

“Thank you for highlighting the story of young Stanley. I wish I could help,” Mr Kilimo Kapchairo, from Sudan said.

From the photos, he said, the boy could be suffering from a rare tumour known as haemangioma.

“I would like to do anything to help the boy and his family to find a cure and live a normal life,” said Mercy Ondiek from New York.

Mr Charles Oloo Otieno, a Senior Civilian Peacekeeper, in Philippines is another Kenyan who has offered to help.