The past couple of weeks we have been training 6 health care workers to extend Project Peanut Butter to the Njala Health Center. Last Wednesday was the first clinic day, and we had so many people come with their children. The health care staff did an excellent job! They screened about 75 children and enrolled 43 in the program.
Our other two clinics, Taninahun and Taiama, also went really well. The number of children are growing at each of our clinic sites. The mothers are coming with their children from farther and farther away. This means the word is spreading about the nutrition program! We had a couple serious cases of edema (swelling) with some of the children at Taiama and Taninahun. These children's edema had completely disappeared! What a blessing! The mom's are doing a great job.
There is a short term UMVIM team coming to Taiama at the end of December. The nurses are getting excited for the team's arrival! They are already spreading the word for everyone from the villages to come to the clinic on the dates the team will be there.
We leave in a little over two weeks to go back to the U.S. for Christmas! Until then, we are making a little over one ton of RUTF in order to stock up each clinic's supply and working with our contractor in building the factory.
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