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Your sponsorship will bring help to children like 4-year-old Rosbin Gonzalez, who has worms in his stomach. |
Worms can be child-killers
Rosbin lives on a remote Honduran hillside. His siblings and him eat just twice a day and are all malnourished. Besides suffering from worms, they have also been plagued with malaria, diarrhoea and asthma.
Every day, they eat beans and corn tortillas for breakfast and dinner because they don’t have anything else to eat. Although the tortillas provide well-needed calories, they lack much nutritional value and essential nutrients, causing them to be underweight for their age.
One pound of chicken for a huge family at best
Occasionally, Rosbin’s mother, Amabilia, manages to buy one pound of chicken, but that hardly provides enough protein for an entire family of four sets of aunts and uncles, countless cousins and a grandmother.
The family cannot afford to keep livestock and earning money is a constant challenge for them as they live far from any town.
Amabilia and her husband Nicacio Vasquez, 40, depend on seasonal work and temporary jobs to feed their children. The lack of food and proper nutrients has caused her children to fall sick easily and all of them are underweight for their age.
Amabilia is especially concerned about her youngest, eight-month-old Marlon, whose eyes look sunken and whose body is frail.
But the best she can do is feed her children tortillas, hoping that these will fill their bellies up.
A Belly Full of tortillas and worms
While tortillas try to fill these children’s bellies, something much worse fills them, too. Apart from Rosbin, several of Amabilia’s children have large, inflated bellies filled with worms too. And they are in pain.
Knowing that her children suffer frequently from worms and fever, Amabilia said, “I do get concerned because these worms can kill them. And sometimes kids in the community have died because of fever.”
However, amidst the bleak situation and depressing factors like inadequate food, unclean water, poor health and limited education, Amabilia still carries hope that all six of her children can grow up healthy.
By sponsoring a child today, you will be providing children like Rosbin much more than just nutritious food - you are giving them and their families the ability to escape from a hand-to-mouth existence and break out of poverty for good.
Stop deadly intestinal worms and other child killers.
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