Doctors Without Boarder: Help Us Save Malnourished Children

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	Dear Mr. Abdolian, A two-year-old boy was carried into the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) therapeutic feeding center, skeletal from malnutrition. His little face was sunken and his legs were only as thick as my two fingers. He was so thin that he whimpered when I examined him – the slightest touch hurt. Your support helped us save this little boy from dying from malnutrition, and we ask that you please give generously to help more children like him today. Soon after we started treating him with special, highly nutritious food, he gained enough strength to sit up on his own. Within a few weeks, he put on significant weight, and I felt it was safe to send him home. I see many children like this at the Doctors Without Borders feeding program in Aweil Town in southern Sudan. We treat most of them with therapeutic ready-to-use food (RUF), a milk-based, peanut butter-like paste that has the specific nutrients growing children need. We were soon able to discharge this skeletal little boy because his mother could use RUF to complete his treatment at home. Doctors Without Borders is battling malnutrition in 22 countries around the world. Since mid-May, our field teams in southern Ethiopia have treated more than 11,800 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. No child should have to die from malnutrition. Please make a gift today and give a chance of survival to a child who otherwise has none. Sincerely, Dr. Peter Reynaud Doctors Without Borders Pediatrician South Sudan, 2008 P.S. Doctors Without Borders is urging that more be done to treat young children with malnutrition and expand treatment to reach children before they become malnourished. Please help us save more lives today. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in nearly 60 countries. New York Office: 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001