From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Freed from Isolation”

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Friday Story: “Freed from Isolation”

Today’s story comes from Burundi, a landlocked nation in the Great Lakes region of east/central Africa.

Over 90% of the population works in agriculture and depends on subsistence farming, living on crops that include manioc, bananas, beans, sweet potatoes, and sorghum. Less than 2% of the local diet consists of meat.

Five years ago, a 34-year-old mother of four named Alphonsine began to lose mobility due to unknown causes possibly related to kwashiorkor, a form of malnutrition caused by a lack of protein ...

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