Mackline is a 14-month-old girl from Uganda. She has oedematous malnutrition, characterized by the retention of fluid in her body. Without treatment, she risks poor brain development and growth.
Mackline is the second child in her family. When she is feeling well, she likes to play with other children in the village. Both her parents do farm labor for a living, picking tea in the community. Her mother walked for 60 kilometers to reach our medical partner’s hospital, Bwindi Community Hospital. On October 24, Mackline began malnutrition treatment.
Mackline’s family is subsidizing the cost of nutrition therapy with $4. They need help to fund this remaining $316.
“How I wish I could have a way of thanking the donors to the care of my child,” says Mackline’s mother. “I wish I could meet them one day. May God bless the donors twice or more with what they support with!”