life

the following pictures are of a family that we’ve visited for years in a village called Messailler. they are all siblings, and extremely poor. their mom will often leave them for days at a time to go into the mountains to engage in voodoo, leaving them to fend for themselves. the smallest children were very malnourished and sick, with signs of “failure to thrive.” what is encouraging, however, is that as they get older, and as we’ve seen over the years, they have survived and grown into capable children.