Million Dollar Dilemma by Judy Baer

Author:Judy Baer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Starvation has many faces. It also manifests itself in many ways. Children who have a single non-protein staple in their diets often suffer from kwashiorkor, a disease whose symptoms include enlarged liver, edema, swelling and growth retardation. Niacin deficiency will produce pellagra and its accompanying diarrhea, rashes and tissue irritation, while a thiamine deficiency produces beriberi and heart disease or brain and nerve disease. Lack of the vitamins and minerals that many Americans automatically pop into their mouths with a glass of morning orange juice results in scurvy, bleeding, gum disease, convulsions, fever, loss of blood pressure or death. Malnutrition can result in blindness, rickets, anemia, shrinkage of vital organs, retardation and a host of unspeakable suffering. Is this the torment to which we choose to consign many of the world’s children?

The helpless feelings that are generated by these massive problems often lead to an attitude of hopelessness, but there is good news. Remarkably, children can recover from severe starvation. An orphanage in Bujumbura, Burundi, can accept another one hundred children into its program for less than seventy dollars per child, per month.

Seventy dollars a month—a little over two dollars a day, a latte at the drive through, a soda and candy bar at break time, the money wasted by not clipping that restaurant coupon from the newspaper—the difference between life and death?

It is time for us to wake up, to realize that one person can make a difference.

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