Pictures from the ICU

Job continues to recover.  All his edema from his kwashiorkor is gone.  Time to drink lots of formula and get little Job gaining some weight! A new child admitted today.  His legs and feet are very swollen due to edema from his kwashiorkor. Delens is healing and recovering.  He is

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March Clinic Review

Total consults = 2829 Working days = 17 Average per day = 166 Children weighed and assessed for malnutrition = 755 Percentage of children underweight = 48% (361 kids) Percentage of severe malnutrition (-2,-3, -4 SD) = 20% (153 kids) Patients with kwashiorkor = 88 Sacks of Medika Mamba distributed

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Papa/Father

Papa, Nou tout tankou ti zwazo ki grangou maten an.  Bouch ke nou louvri byen laj, ap tann ou plen nou. Father, We are all hungry baby birds this morning.  Our heart-mouths are gaping wide, wating for you to fill us.

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2000 lives touched with medika mamba in 6 years!

In 2009 we began using Medika Mamba.  This was our first shipment of boxes of the life saving product. We began with 10 children as a test run to see how well the product worked.  The results were wonderful and the kids were healing from malnutrition and serious cases of

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New admits to the ICU/ Rescue Center

DELENS He is 6 years old and weighs 29 pounds (his lowest weight).  He was referred to us from Children’s Health Ministries.  He has been losing weight for about 7 months now and just does not want to eat much.  He also has a cold and cough.  The day he

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Babies from the Rescue Center :)

    Gabriel—-always happy and willing to giggle with anyone Louivens-quiet and loves to be cuddled. Sammuel-not many thought this cutie would make it.  But he did and is growing and getting so big…he is quiet and loves to be held. Steevenson-over a year old and just reached 11 1/2

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