From Angela Jennings' blog:

Early afternoon today two twins came into the clinic at Canaan. The family had walked 4 hours to get here. They live up in the mountains and they had heard about the Medika Mamba program and saw it as their only hope.

Bobi said the little boy was the in the top three worse cases she has seen. He is the swollen one. He could barely see out his eyes. Luckily they made it to the clinic. Thankfully we were able to take care of them and praise the parents for doing all they humanly could to help their twins.

By the end of the day you could already tell the Medika Mamba was helping. It was unreal how much better they were doing in 12 short hours. They were regaining strength and had started to cry. This is actually a good sign!

Ocilouis (on the right) is "kwashikor." This is a state of severe malnutrition that results in tremendous swelling all over the body.

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Meet Reginald. At first, he may look like a happy, healthy and normal 2 year-old Haitian boy.

Look closer...

You will see a boy who was at one time very malnourished. He was grumpy, irritable and unhealthy. His eyes were dull. He had bumps and rashes on his skin. Poor sanitary conditions at home had led to chronic diarrhea and worms. His health had been stolen from him at the age of two.

The work here is very hard. Sometimes mothers fail to return for their weekly appointments. Our malnutrition program isn't perfect. We don't have a flawless system down. We run in to all kinds of obstacles.

I think it's worth it.


"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa