Category Archives: Child
Mary from Mangotchi
Mary is young and had been at school until just over a year ago. Now she is totally blind. The brittle undiagnosed Diabetes had metabolically robbed her of her sight in a matter of months. Her sugar was so high when she came to Nkhoma, we had to spend 2 weeks controlling it even before [...]
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The youth of today
Tikale had a traumatic cataract in his right eye. He was trying to get through some bushes to cross a road, when one snapped back and caught him strongly in the eye. Within a week his vision clouded over, and by the time a month later when he made it to the hospital he was [...]
The rains have come
I was happy to arrive back in Nkhoma during the rains. They shouls have started in ernest 2 months ago, but have been somewhat scanty over the past weeks. The crops are surviving in the central region and over the past week we have had a number of huge down pours to soak the fields [...]
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