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Dad gives his five-year-old daughter gift of life with kidney

organ donation

“All I could think of was the quality of life that my kidney could offer her.”

These were the heart-warming words of 29-year-old father, Justin Africa, who gave his kidney to his five-year-old daughter, Rebekah.

Rebekah was born with congenital nephrotic syndrome.

It is a condition formed within the first three months of life and is characterised by high levels

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