‘My prayer is God, heal my daughter’

MALNUTRITION stole most of Habibo’s eyesight and left the 1-year-old close to death. Medical personnel tried to pump life back into the toddler, but she only moved when her stomach fitfully spasmed.

As her mother tried to feed her, her frail hands tried to resist the small cup placed between her lips.

“My prayer is ‘God, heal my daughter,’” said Habibo’s mother, Marwo Maalin, in a resigned tone earlier this week.