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Breakfast2Live raises money for deprived children around the world… from UK school breakfast clubs to children in some of the poorest parts of the world.
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The distributed food helps to feed children a substantial meal, which helps them to grow and learn, with the best start to the day. For some children it’s the only meal they will get.
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Sabina has a tired, worn face. When we walked into the compound, Allen was lying next to her, all bundled up.
His hair was curly and thin. His eyes large and dark in his face. His cheekbones were pronounced and he was
listless and limp. He was suffering from severe malnutrition and after a medical examination we were told had
we not helped he would have died within two weeks.
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1 year old ALLEN MWASYA and his Grandmother SABINA ZAUMI.
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No one knows who Allen’s father is. His mother, an alcoholic, disappeared and left her mother with five young children to
care for. Her mother is a widow, her husband having died five years earlier. She has absolutely no way to take care of five
small children. She also has one child, a 15-year-old son, of her own to care for. The children are Sabina (7); Susan (4);
Moses (2.5); Julius (2.5) and Allen (1 year).
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Allen has been sick for a while. He was in the hospital in July, suffering from rickets, severe pneumonia and severe dehydration.
After his hospital stay, his weight started dropping rapidly. What child wouldn’t be malnourished when all he has to eat is water
with a little rice? The grandmother told us that the day before we arrived, she had porridge, but she had given it to the other
children, not Allen. There wasn’t enough for all of them.
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| Allen has never even tasted milk. He weighed just 3.5 kilos, or about 7 pounds and at a year old he is supposed
to weigh at least 8 kilos. He had severe anemia and iron deficiency. They live in a house built by the community. Her teenage son
painted the cheerful yellow and white pictures on the wall. The family survives on hand-outs from well-wishers and neighbours.
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When we saw Allen we bought some high nutrition food so that Sabina could make Allen some porridge. The next day we arranged for him to be taken to a centre where he will be given medical care as well as nourishing food to build him up and when we went to meet him with just two high nutrition meals inside him he was a little more alert.
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A very happy, healthy Allen two
weeks after receiving our help.
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