Anna Dombkins

Yeah.

which in the moment kind of felt like one of those bombs that might destroy the whole thing because Mark and I had never talked about having five children and that would be four one-year-olds.

And so it was a huge shock.

And also, you know, she was like, you might be taking him home to die.

And what would that be like for our children to watch that?

Yeah, so I rang him from there and just said, there's something she hasn't told us.

The twins have a brother.

And he said, well, we've got to give that little guy a chance.

And so he just straight away, that's who he is.

He's such a beautiful man.

And he just, he was all in.

And of course, we had to give him a chance.

We were never going to leave him.

And so

really we were almost thinking, what are we going to tell Shane and Charlie that we did for their brother?

If this was the end of his life, how could we make that as comfortable for him as possible?

And so we knew there was a chance he would survive.

But yeah, that was going to take us to one four-year-old and four one-year-olds.

But we knew there was no other option here and we couldn't just walk away knowing these children didn't have a family.

So we'd gone kind of back and forth and then Mark and I flew over to Mwanza together to the baby home and we came in to meet him and he was sitting in a room full of maybe 15 or 20 babies his age and he just sat still looking at the wall and everyone else was kind of playing with toys and making noise and he just sat and stared and he was so tiny, obviously so malnourished, his