El Cercado Malnutrition Program

What a wonderful week. God Blessed my son Sean and I with so much. We were able to help Dr Perdomo serve the people of the village and at least 30 of the children in the Malnutrition Program. We bought groceries for some of the poorer families. They were so appreciative (as always). The is a 2-1/2 year old boy named Angel that I had been concerned about because he clearly had a neurological disorder and seizures underlying his malnutrition. He was not able to talk a 2y old. On this trip he had been to the neurologist in Santa Domingo. He is now on Depakote. He is starting to talk and was all smiles. I was so happy to see him. His family is extremely poor. We brought supplies for his mother to learn to make soap and try and start her own small business. Ruth who is the receptionist; and "do everything person" at the clinic is going to teach her how to make the soap later next week and help her with buying new supplies. Tomas works in the pharmacy and also as a social worker for the families, he and my son had a great time. He made Sean (16years old) feel at ease quickly. The El Cercado clinic is so special to spend time at.
Then our  last day we went out with Grace Bible Church to do a barrio clinic. What a fantastic group of people. The energy they had was wonderful. I felt right at home with them. They shareed their love of God with the people as much as the medicine we gave.  I hope to join them again next year.
Sean said the only thing we didn't need were the roosters-like knowone has heard that story before!
God Bless
Valerie Whitney