Malnutrition Center Report from Bailey

There are about sixty to seventy kids there in all. Around 25 babies, and the rest are little kids. There are only three people working with the babies, and four or five working with the little kids. Some of the babies there look younger than they really are. Me and Alicia and two of our friends thought that one of the babies was six months old, but she was really two years old. All four of us were there when a little girl named Maria got there. Her mom stayed for a long time to see what they would do with her. She was about four years old, and was tall and skinny. She kept her little blanket around her all the time, and didn’t give any sort of facial expression, but every once in a while, she would look up at her mom and would cry a little. Her hands and feet were blown up like tennis balls, and she could barley move her fingers, and couldn’t walk. Because she couldn’t walk, she went in with the babies. When we went there again, about two weeks later, her hand and feet had gone down to a normal size, and she was able to walk a little! Alicia worked with her on that, and whenever she walked for a little ways, she would look up at Alicia and smile like she was proud of herself! She is now in the older girls and is almost ready to leave!