“I appreciate you all. I want my daughter to follow her dreams and become an expert accountant,” shares IIse’s mother.
Meet IIse, a five-year-old girl from Guatemala. Our medical partner, Wuqu’ Kawoq (WK), tells us, “Ilse lives with her family in a humble one-room home. Her mother hates to see her daughter like this; her little girl that normally loves to play soccer and study math has lost so much weight and has very low energy. Ilse’s father works as a day laborer on the plantation they live on, barely making enough money to buy tortillas and other simple foods to eat.”
IIse currently lives with malnutrition. “IIse is below the average height and the average weight for her age,” WK reports, ”She currently is not consuming enough calories and enough quality foods. As a result her physical growth is stunted, and we worry her mental growth will be stunted as well.”
$512 will fund the treatment IIse needs to address her nutritional deficit and improve her low energy and subsequent limited mental potential. This involves micronutrient and food supplementation, deworming medication to rid IIse of a parasitic infection, and nutrition education for her parents. With these combined efforts, IIse will recoup her weight and height and strengthen her immune system, laying the foundation for a healthier future.