Cradle of Love Baby Home

Thirteen months old and looking jaunty in his jogging suit and sneakers, Junior arrived just after noon today. I had been told that he is HIV+ and on ARV's, but he is not on ARV's, rather on TB medicine. I will have to have him tested to see his HIV status. He came to me without […]

This afternoon we received Neema, a 2 1/2 month old girl. She is chubby and has lots of soft curly hair–and a beautiful smile. (How I wish my camera was working!)  Her mother is still living, but has AIDS and was very sick during her pregnancy with Neema. She has given birth to three other […]

This is the type of request that I often get:

I have a baby who is two month old and her mother is HIV positive. Her mother was serious sick during delivery and after. At the moment she is some how ok but she can not feed breast her baby. Two weeks ago we met her […]

This afternoon Zahara, Max, Staci and I went to visit Pauline who runs the Malaika Children's Home in Njiro, a suburb of Arusha. She has 13 children at present, and one of them is "our" baby Samuel. He has grown so much, but is a sober little man. His older sister also lives there and […]

I was already home for the day, and Zahara came to my door and said "We have a new baby!" Those words really get "my motor" going! I rushed back to the Home with her and met an adorable, tiny little girl named Dafroza. She is one month old and only weighs 5.7 lbs. Her dad […]