Osteogenis Imperfecta or Lobstein disease is a common condition effecting thousands of children in Eastern Europe. The condition is caused mainly by malnutrition.

Children who suffer from this illness have bones that are very weak and in time splinter and protrude through their skin, leaving them in much pain and after a while without any use of their limbs.

If they don’t receive medical aid and urgent surgery, they will within a short period of time begin to die a slow painful death, from bone splinters throughout their bodies.

In 2000, after a lot of research and consultation with orthopaedic surgeons, we finally found a surgeon who put forward an answer he believed that if their bones were brought back together again and attached to flexible telescopic rods, a type of rod that would be flexible with young limbs and would expand with the growth of the child and wouldn’t be rejected by the body in the lifetime of a young person was the answer.

So with experimentation and research we discovered they would have to be made of titanium, for strength and flexibility and non rejection by the body, and made telescopically to expand with the growth of the child. They had to be made to allow a young child all the mobility they would need in youth. To meet with all of these requirements meant us getting the implants made from very expensive titanium. We finally found a surgical needs company in Germany who could produce these implants for us which became the ideal solution.

On the 13th May 2000 in the Marie Curie Children’s Hospital, Bucharest, Romania, we made history with a team of surgeons we brought together, who carried out the very first operation of its kind in Romania. Within a month a further three successful operations were carried out, all of which our foundation provided for, presenting us with a hefty €60,000.00 bill. The first operation was financed entirely by Divine Mercy Publications, a publishing group owned by Val Conlon who published and promoted the revelations given by Jesus to Saint Faustina.

Since then these operations are continuing, scheduled for every month all of which we continue to pay for in full. If you would like to contribute to give a child a new life, send your donation stating it is for a child’s operation with Lobstein Disease.