Cash, cars, gold, and livestock: How Kyrgyzstan organized its largest crowdfunding campaign to help sick children

The nation is able to rally and mobilize resources in the face of adversity

Originally published on Global Voices

A volunteer in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, wearing a vest with the image of Hamza, a little boy diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Screenshot from the video “ХАМЗА / ОШ ШААРЫНДА АКЧА ЧОГУТУЛДУ” from adil tv‘s YouTube channel. Fair use.

For people in Kyrgyzstan, March 2025 was marked by the extraordinary joint effort to save children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA),...