Today we went to an unknown place, in a hard to find village, in an area hard to get to. I was with Wilson Tembo from the Namikango Clinic and we were doing a story on a small girl who had received one of the 550 wheelchairs the Malawi Project had delivered to the county thanks to a cooperative relationship with the Free Wheelchair Mission.
Wilson told me last week they too some wheelchairs to an area near here and when he saw the people and their plight he broke down and cried.
When we reached the place we found the little girl and her parents sitting near a grove of mango trees. Wilson gathered the information for the story. It seems the 6 year old had been fine until she was three when she was bitten by a mosquito. This mosquito carried the deadly strain of malaria that brings about celebral malaria. I know some about that since Suzi has had it three times. Well, the little girl was in a coma for a week. When she awakened she could not talk or walk. The parents took her home. There was nothing else that could be done. She would never run and play, go to school, get married or have children. I reached down and touched the frail legs as she sat limply looking at me from the wheelchair. I broke down and cried.
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