Tibetan Mother and Child

While traveling in Amdo, women would stop me on the street and ask that I look at their child to see if the child was healthy. My heart broke, as I wanted so much to help them but felt so helpless at that moment. I knew that many of the children would not make it to 5 years because of diarrhea, or respiratory infections or would not properly grow and develop because of lack of basic health care and malnutrition.

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