Friday, March 30, 2007

Josua

You'll be happy to know that Josua's oldest brother showed up on Friday
to claim him and take him home, although they don't have enough money to
buy formula, so they're not sure how they are going to feed him. Life
seems to be made up of little tragedies like that, rather than big
ones. I often think of life here as life at the extremes, where little
is necessary to push someone over the limit and strip them of what
little resources they have. Formula is out of reach for pretty much all
of the people that we see here, which is why we see so many kids up on
the malnutrition ward after there's a new kid at home and they have to
stop breastfeeding.

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