They ate the Mamba and they got chubby…new grads!

To read more on this locally made fortified peanut butter called Medika Mamba see the Meds & Foods for Kids website here. Valancia’s lowest weight while on Medika Mamba was 15lbs. She graduated at 20lbs. Renista was swollen with Kwashiorkor and lost 5lbs of water weight which put her at

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Who wants to help send Claudette to school?

Previous post about Claudette here, here, here, here Claudette came to the clinic in December 2010.  She was severely burned in a fire.  She almost died.  She has been healing and getting stronger since then.  She is a joy to have here at RHFH.  We all love her.  She is

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Guest Blogger-Roberta V. from Aritist for Hope

Have you ever heard the term Holy Discontent? I hadn’t heard this term until my pastor preached about finding a cause to be passionate about. I realized quickly that I had experienced Holy Discontent about 3 years ago, but I didn’t realize it had a name. It happened one evening

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Sodlyne

You can read Sodlyne’s story  here Sodlyne has been here at the RC for over 1 year.  She was very sick and needed to take medication each day for 1 year.  She is healed and through with her medications and went home this past week.  Will you pray that she

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Guest blogger Graham Sowa

You can read the first part of Grahams paper here a. definition and types of nutritional failure Nutritional failure can have three general causes:  1) Deficiency of total caloric and protein intake (clinically manifested as marasmus), 2) Deficiency of protein intake only (clinically manifested as kwashiorkor), or 3) a combination

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New kids in the RC

Wow~it has been several days since the last post.  Believe me we have not been sitting around in the Caribbean sun taking a break 🙂  We have had lots of sick kids and adults with us.  It takes several hours out of our day just to give meds and make

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