A little over 2 years ago, my heart pounded to see my baby boys for the first time... As they were brought around the corner I quickly embraced them both... But as I embraced my second son, it became reality... My nearly 5 month old son was as light as a feather... He struggled to hold his tiny head up and his muscle tone was so poor he could not close his mouth... His legs looked like skin and bones and his belly was distended...
I was holding my son... who was starving and close to death.
Thanks to hospitalized emergency care, feeding and the power of prayer... our son survived his severe malnutrition and is a healthy boy today...
A year later we returned to Ethiopia and a number of orphanages with infants who were- like my son was not long ago- severely malnourished and in dire need of nutrition... We had the honor of bringing formula to an intake orphanage on behalf of FormulaOneLife during our visit. This orphanage had no formula, so as starving infants came in, they were given powdered milk out of the only provisions the orphanage had... I held infants’ arms that were half the size of my sons on the day I met him. I feared taking their blankets off to see how tiny and wasting their legs were... These infants needed nutrition and formula desperately.
FormulaOneLife is returning to Ethiopia June 25th-July 1st and they need our help to feed these infants... Please consider helping them feed infant orphans just like our son... just two years ago...
Kebek today
Dan & Alisha McClintock www.allthemomentsthattakeourbreathaway.blogspot.com
**Please visit www.formulaonelife.org to make a vital donation in support of our next mission to Ethiopia, June 25th-July 1st... Thank you!
