At the beginning of March a new family started getting involved with One!. The family (a 4 year old boy, a 3 year old girl, and a 1 year old boy, mom) were living in the Carter Road area along with the other families. We saw the state of the children and immediately persued the mom. The mom finally listened to our warnings that the children desperately needed to see a doctor and get help.
Three days later we took the children in to see a paediatrician. Sahil (the older boy) was healthy but the same could not be said for his younger siblings. The doctor basically said that he didn’t know if there was any hope but try this.
Three days later, baby Sagar died. He didn’t have a chance. He was 11 months old and weighed just over 3 kilos.
Death is never good, but at least Snehal (the children’s mother) learned from Sagar’s life that she had to give her LIVING children much better care and attention. Piyu who was three years old and only 6 kilos when we met her, was in the same situation as her baby brother. She was extremely malnourished. Luckily, along with Snehal we have been giving her all that we can (love and medical care) and now she is doing much better. She is even crawling and starting to talk!
