Saturday, June 26, 2010

Sunshine...Heartbreak...


Sunshine...
Heartbreak....

I just found out that the little boy in the picture with me in the blog titled Sunshine is dying...for lack of *%&#ing food...What is wrong with this world that a 5year old boy dies because he has never had enough food... I sit here and the tears come because its so unfair. I know I cannot make the changes that need to be made on the grander scale so that stuff like this doesn't happen and at times I feel hard pressed to think that the things that I do do will ever make a difference...

When do things change, where is the light at the end of that long, never ending tunnel. I know that it's hard to convey what it feels like to hold a starving child in your arms...The morning I left Cazele (where the center for malnourished children is) I woke up at 0530 to the voice of Ojean asking for water. I got up, gave him water, changed him (because at 5 he is still wearing diapers that would fit a 2yr old) and took him outside with me. We sat and I talked to him. I am sure he could not understand my English but he sat and looked at me I am hoping, happy to be being held...He was able to sit up on his own, feed himself and drink water himself.. But now, and such is the cycle for children suffering from malnutrition from birth he is too weak, he has no reserves to fight off even the mildest of infections...so he will die and leave me to wonder how many children like him are out there...not only in Haiti but in the whole world...

So very sad...

2 comments:

  1. Ojean sitting up and eating this morning...wow..its going to be a good day!

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  2. Just saw on RHFH blog that Ojean gained 5 pound this past 2 weeks and is looking great..smiling..warms my heart!

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