OLDINE She is 2 years old and weighs 27 pounds. She is not a typical case of kwashiorkor. When her swelling went down she did not have a lot of muscle and fat loss like so many of the kids that we see. She will just be here an short
Many people see the photos and hear the stories of the children and people that we serve and ask, “What can I do?” Well, this post is for you! This month, we want to tell you about the needs list. This is a list of common, constant, and urgent needs that
Over the past few months we have seen a significant increase in the cases of malnutrition that we are seeing here in Cazale. While our desire is to decrease in number we have been increasing. We go through medications rather quickly with the amount of children we are caring for.
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”~Mother Teresa
DAPHNEE She is 26 months old and weighs 20 pounds. She has kwashiorkor, fever, cough and worms. She had been following in the outpatient feeding program for several weeks but has not had much change in her weight and her kwash was getting worse. Her parents decided to admit
DIEUVENSKLY He is 17 months old and weighs 14 pounds. His mother left him with his grandma (her mother) when he was 10 months old. Grandma says the mom went to find work in the DR and she has not heard from her since then. She also left 4
