Friday, February 13, 2009
Monsoons in Indonesia
Hello and thanks for your patience while we put up our new website and restarted our blog.
I have been working with the very very poor villages in East Bali where there is a tremendous problem with malnutrition. The woman you see here is suffering from goiters, which is a condition that comes from a lack of iodine. There is so little food here that the people eat cassava root which leaches the iodine from ones system. The baby here has pneumonia and also is suffering from what looked like scabies, a highly contagious condition that infests the skin. As there is no water in this area, basic hygiene is simply unheard of.
More on the developments soon.
Oh by the way, the baby will be going to the doctor this week, thanks to the donations we received from our supporters like you. Thank you so much for helping us make a difference in these peoples lives.
Blessings
Amana
I have been working with the very very poor villages in East Bali where there is a tremendous problem with malnutrition. The woman you see here is suffering from goiters, which is a condition that comes from a lack of iodine. There is so little food here that the people eat cassava root which leaches the iodine from ones system. The baby here has pneumonia and also is suffering from what looked like scabies, a highly contagious condition that infests the skin. As there is no water in this area, basic hygiene is simply unheard of.
More on the developments soon.
Oh by the way, the baby will be going to the doctor this week, thanks to the donations we received from our supporters like you. Thank you so much for helping us make a difference in these peoples lives.
Blessings
Amana
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