I MEANT TO POST THIS LAST WESDNEDAY

Ryan, the malnurished boy from outreach, was brought to the hospital by his father on Saturday. We are so grateful they came. Most people don't come to the hospital because it is to expensive. Here you have to buy any medications, syringes, needles or sheets yourself and finding all these things is quite difficult. You even have to bring your own water. It's really sad but our director got the little guy everything he needed. The hospital did some tests, but nobody was around to care for Ryan or give Pauline (the director) the test results. So she brought him back to the base. It turns out he is actually two years old not 1. We are all really confused because we have recieved alot of contradicting information from some of the tribal women. The main thing is he is here now and will get help. The father was really upset and wanted to stay with ud for a little while, unfortunately he had to go back to work but he trusts the team here to make Ryan better.
He's still very unwell, when he first got here saturday night he was only 6kg, which is incredibly small for a 2 year old. But he has gained 1kg in the three days he has been here. He is much more awake then when we first got him and has started to eat on his own. The students are not allowed to get involved too much right now because white people are very scary and he will do better if as few people as possible are handling him and feeding him. The tribe chief came to check on the little guy and was shocked at the difference a few days of proper care had made.
Here is a picture of the little guy.

God totally had everything planned out before we got this little angel. Just a few weeks ago a girl from Sweden called Pauline saying she felt God wanted her to be a part of the staff here in Mindoro. Pauline didn't have a position for her but thought it would be the right thing to let her come. She arrived last wednesday, but had nothing to do here on the base. There was also a Mangyan caregiver(from a different tribe) who has been asking Pauline to join the staff for the last few months but she did not have the money to stay here. Pauline had kinda lost touch with her, but she was at the clinic we did on friday. When Pauline agreed to take Ryan she didn't know who would care for him but then remembered the Swedish girl. She was also able to get sponsors for the caregiver to come in so somebody from his own tribe could care for him. It was good for the students too because we had just learned how to diagnose and care for different kinds of malnutrition the day before outreach.

I also took pictures at some of the bible studies we have done the last few days. The kids were re-enacting the battle of Jehoshaphat. I think they got do wrapped up in the paper swords they missed the point of the story. Oh well, at least they had fun



How scared does this baby look. Us white folk get this look alot from the wee ones.