Here's a new picture of Luis, taken last week, a little more than two weeks after the picture I posted last week. He has made great progress, though he still has a ways to go. This week, due to school matriculation for the older kids and the Holy Week holiday, Lucia is not at the Center.
Rich and Corrinne requested a follow-up on Daisy. I'm sorry to say that I don't have any recent info about her. We went back to the family home several weeks ago to check on her; she had gotten bigger and looked very different, but we didn't have a scale so I don't know what she weighed, and the mother has not brought her back to the clinic to be re-weighed. In spite of the social worker's threatening to remove the child from the home if the mother didn't bring the baby in, the fact is that it's a terrible burden on this mother to come back with any regularity--more than a two-hour bus ride each way at a total cost of $5, which the family can ill afford, plus five other children at home. One of these days the social worker will go back out.
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