She is home
We enter the ward for malnourished children a smiling face looks up from the bed toward us. Little Thelma looks better, her diarhee has stopped and she is slowly eating the plate of food in front of her. It is so wonderful to see her sitting up and smiling at us. We went to pick her up with Social Welfare after she were released from hospital. We brought her home, gave her a bath a dressed her in new clothes. Thelma is very malnourished and she is HIV+. We started her process at the hospital and soon we will do a CD4 count to determine if she should start the retroviral medicine. Thelma were possibly abandoned by her mother, because she were to weak to take care of her. Holding her frail body and seeing her smile touches me deeply everytime. She has no name (Thelma were given to her after she were abandoned), no birth cerificate, and no family. She did nothing and yet she is ill with a virus that kills millions every year. There are many more like Thelma, orphaned and abandoned by AIDS. Our baby house is full and still we are asked to take in more babies. Please pray with us for a miracle from God so that we can open a second house for AIDS babies. Pray for Thelma as she starts the fight against AIDS.