Good News!!! Help for Jose is on the way!

Jose is getting a new bag! 500 of them to be exact. For those of you who don't know, Jose is a little 5 year old boy who had a bit of a rough start to life- he was born with out an anus. Most children in the developing world who are born with this unfortunate condition die in the first few weeks of life. Lucky for him there was a surgeon available to create a little detour so to speak for him. While this was certainly a life saving procedure, his life has been anything but easy. His family can not afford the cost of purchasing colostomy bags ($2-4 a piece!!) for him so instead they wrap his abdomen in a towel. This has created painful sores that he attempts to prevent by not eating! This results in serious under nutrition (last time I checked he weighed 25 lbs) that only serves to delay his wound healing and put him at risk for other illnesses. Not only this, but because they have not been able to find a more hygienic solution to his problem, Jose has been held of school- the biggest opportunity he has for improving his life prospects. Thanks to a generous donation and the help of J. Clonts from Littleton, Colorado help for Jose is on the way. These bags should hold him over for the next year or so but if any of you have some spare change laying around click the donate link on our blog and send it our way. We are working on finding a way to pay for a very complicated reconstructive surgery that will one day allow Jose to know the joy of using more fully his own interior plumbing.