In the span of one week, I saw two malnourished babies who exemplified the horrible results of untreated mastitis in rural Malawi. This is a condition that can easily be treated, but due to cultural mores and lack of education, the women did not access care immediately. These women will probably lose their breasts, and their babies have lost important early nutrition.
Kindle has been able to provide formula, but  we are also trying to focus on prevention, not only for mastitis, but for every disease.

According to Dr. Raj Arole, founder of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in India, a village health worker can take care of 80 percent of the village’s health problems, because most are related to nutrition and to the environment: “Rural problems are simple. Safe drinking water, education, and poverty alleviation do more to promote health than diagnostic tests and drugs” (from “Necessary Angels,” National Geographic 214, pp. 70-85.)