Sammy's Amazing Recovery

At 18 months, Sammy weighed only nine pounds. Her arms and legs were shriveled; her paper-thin skin sagged limply into her ribs. She was too weak to move, too sick to eat.

Sammy was born to an HIV-positive mother who died from AIDS about a year after her birth. She is HIV positive and began having thrush in her mouth and was unable to eat. She got sicker and sicker and her aunt and grandmother were unable to provide any medical care for her.

With Sammy on the verge of death Gail Trollip, director of the Hope Center, was called. Gail carefully scooped the child into her arms and took her back to the Hope Centre where nursing aides began feeding Sammy with a medicine dropper. It was touch and go as to whether Sammy would live or not, but after 10 days, she finally showed some signs of improvement.

A year later, Sammy had made huge improvements. Her motor skills improved and she has begun walking. With the help of food and medicines has been able to restore life to children like little Sammy who have no hope.

Stories like Sammy’s are tragically all too common in Sub-Saharan Africa but Love Is All We Need are commited to helping as many children like Sammy as possible.

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