How many Suyapas are out there?

How many Suyapas are outside there? When she was two years old, our Suyapa had the appearance of a six-month-old baby. She did not speak or walk and she could not eat by herself. She looked extremely thin; her case is one of the most serious in our hospital ward. When we realize how dreadful malnutrition can be, we simply asked ourselves, why? How can this happen? , It is probably the negligence of both the parents and the society.

Is it our country, Honduras; that faces the problems?  Suyapa almost died because she did not have milk on a daily basis.  And the questions continue to come. Cases like Suyapa´s are frequent to our staff. We need a regular education program for parents, and for responsible leaders of each town. We need to teach cooking classes and sponsor programs for gardening. We have to do all we can to be helpful for society. The innocent children are not the guilty ones. One of our objectives is to fight against malnutrition in Honduras and stop the unnecessary death march. It is estimated that fifty children in Honduras died each day from malnutrition.The statistics point out that one of every four Honduran children suffers from chronic malnutrition, according to a study realized by the United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, last year.

Scaring?, but pitifully there is something worse. 200.000 children go to bed every night without anything in their stomachs, of these, if malnutrition arrives before two years old, it produces serious sequels and irreversible consequences. As the case of the little Suyapa, she began to speak and took her first steps when she was three years old. She is a living miracle, because if she had not received medical attention in that time, and the necessary foods for her recovery, she would be dead, that cold, that real. Pitifully, like Suyapa, there are many children there outside who are on the verge of dying, where? We do not know it, it can be in the following door, or to thousands of miles from Peña Blanca, meanwhile, we fight to recover those that come to us, and soon will leave in search of those precious lives, that the malnutrition wants to take. We win the battle with Suyapa, her precious smile and her brilliants and great eyes demonstrate it, she gives and receives love, and she is thankful for every day of life that God gives her, in her little words, since she is developing her language, she says thanks for the opportunity to live. Like her many children give thanks to God, in spite of their shortage by food, health and life. And all this could not be possible without God, and also without your aid, which is necessary to continue in the rescue of these precious souls. Perhaps we never write a book, or plant a tree or even have a son, but we can help to rescue a life. Now it is the moment because they do not have a tomorrow.

One dollar and a portion of your time can make the difference. Thanks! 73,4% of the homes live in poverty in Honduras, and 50,7% perceive less than 1,00 US$ dollar per day.• Extreme poverty, is concentrated in 56,1% in rural area and 87,6% in the Rural West. The WFP esteem that more of a million of Hondurans is in the scale of nourishing vulnerability. Extreme poverty is defined as the condition of people whose incomes are insufficient to acquire basic foods.