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Natalia | Cania | Lola | Jill's Story

Natalia Borges 22/12/04 - 28/10/05

This is a picture of me with my Mum and Dad. I died 4 hours before this picture was taken. We lived in Darlau. I was suffering from pneumonia complicated by malnutrition. If Mum had been able to live in a center like HIAM-Health is proposing I would be alive today.

HIAM-Health staff take Natalia home with her grieving parents to prepare for her funeral.

Natalia's parents also have two other children, aged 3 and 5. Here HIAM-Health nurse Antonio gives Natalia's father sufficient food to help them manage for one week.

Natalia | Cania | Lola | Jill's Story

Please help us! Due to the current humanitarian crisis in East Timor, we desperately need your help.

How you can help...

Help build HIAM Health's Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre

Why a rehab centre?
In order to improve the care and rehabilitation of children suffering from malnutrition, to overcome the effects of chronic malnutrition and prevent recurrence of the condition, there is a need to establish a separate and dedicated treatment centre for them. HIAM-Health is currently seeking sponsorship to build an infant/child Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre (MRC) to address this gap in service provision [ read more ... ].

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One of the many children helped by HIAM Health [read more...]

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HIAM-Health first met Lola as an inpatient in Dili Hospital [ read more... ]

The old office...

Rosaria worked in this office unfunded for 6 months... [ view more pics... ]

The new office...

Jill Hillary - Australian volunteer helping HIAM Health at the new office [ view more pics... ]

Education programs...

Parents at a recent education program run by HIAM Health in Metinaro