Maybe a year ago we found a whole family of malnourished children. We have worked with malnourishment issues alot, but even for us, these children were in bad shape…but praise God we were able to save them.
But unfortunately two of these children went back into malnourishment and as a result one of them died, a little boy, Robert. His sister has survived, her name is Miracle. She spent two weeks in a malnourishment ward and has been released into our care. She will need at least a month of consistant food and vitamins before she will go home to her family. This is a very unfortunate case, where both mum and dad would be good cases for the worst parents in the world. The glaring neglect, lack of love and care and no seeming desire to change.
If the father has any work, he will simply get drunk, the mother seems to make more effort for the children. But in our world a sick or weak child is soon neglected. If they can’t feed itself while the other brothers and sisters are eating, they will just miss out. Then as the child becomes weaker and weaker they stay home more and more, lack of excercise, lack of interaction with other children and adults, parents that are rarely home to care for the child, lack of water…and before to long the child will die.
Children and women all over the world bear the worst of the effects of poverty…but children are the ones that die so easily. Children should never be hungry.
Miracle came home on friday, saturday we took her into our care. She is now living with Pastor Marivic for the next one or two months. She will get three meals a day, daily vitamins and additional nutritous snacks at least twice a day and hopefully her little body will recover enough to go home again.
