Meet The Children

Most of the Batsiranai children suffer from cerebral palsy, a term that encompasses a number of neurological disorders that affect muscle control and coordination.  Children are generally born with the condition as it results from a brain abnormality and the sypmtpoms are stable throughout life.

Althought the majority of Batsiranai children have cerebral palsy, but a number of other conditions are also present.  These inculde micro cephalic, hydro cephalic, deafness, and one HIV+ child (with CP).  Some have poor constitutions frequented by pneumonias and during the cholera epidmemic several of the children devloped cholera but all improved.