Before and after: Norma's commitment

Norma is from the La Chirola community, in the Wichí region of Fortín Dragones, Salta. She is a teenager, and rather frightened and withdrawn, she began attending the nutritional check-ups of the Mobile Program that we run every week, going through a difficult, advanced and high-risk pregnancy. She was underweight, and so was her son when he was born.

At Pata Pila, we place special focus on mothers' nutrition during pregnancy, because we know that if they are malnourished, the chances of their child being born with health problems increase enormously. From the moment we met her, we saw her weekly and visited her at home to closely follow the progress of her pregnancy and her son's first days of life. She gradually came to trust our team and also built a lovely bond with the other mothers of different ages who attended the nutritional and pediatric check-ups with their children.

We are very proud of the commitment, consistency and all the positive changes we saw, and continue to see, in Norma and her son during this time! Both are healthy and her son's health is improving profoundly.

We are so glad to have met them, to have been able to accompany them and to watch them move forward together as a family.