We have 2 cooks and 1 helper that cook food each day for the kids. They average 70 bowls of food for each meal. Today’s lunch meal is rice, beans and legume. The legume is a mush of eggplant, carrots, cabbage, militon, spinach, and meat. You put a spoonful of
Frantzo is having fun playing with his friends today. Dieulot is eating well and getting stronger. Youry was admitted last week and is fighting this week to overcome severe kwashiorkor. Some more feet with edema caused by kwashiorkor. Nine years old and 34 pounds. She is fighting off infections and
BENITA She is 17 months old and weighs 21 pounds. She was left at home with another sibling for several days with no parents home. Everyone was hungry and they were trying to make food on an open fire. Benita fell backwards into the fire and burnt the back of
This past week one of our staff members said that a patient that we helped years ago wanted to stop by and say hello over the holiday season. It was a busy day with all the staff in the clinic on vacation and lots of dressing changes. It was towards
Sondy has been following in our clinic for a few months. He was very sick and also showing signs of malnutrition. The family said they had no money and borrowed money to pay for transportation to come to the clinic and asked us to admit him into our inpatient
DANERSON He is almost 4 years old and weighs 18 pounds. He has been sick with diarrhea and vomiting for a few weeks and has been showing signs of kwashiorkor for 5 days now. He also failed the appetite test. He has another brother that is also malnourished that
