Mitch Albom

Why don't you just leave him there?

That's what we're up against there.

We have children who were left at malnutrition clinics and nobody comes back for them.

We have a little girl that's now in my life who was brought to us at six months.

She weighed six pounds.

She had nothing to eat but sugar water, nothing solid to eat for the first six months of her life.

And we had to bring her to America and put her on this nutrition, round-the-clock nutrition program every two hours, feeding her this stuff, you know, just to try to get her to live.

Nadia is her name.

Nadi, Nadi, yeah.

Nadi, Nadi.

She's the joy of our lives now, but...

Three and a half.

Well, we're in the process of it, yes.

We're her legal guardians here.

Oh, you just look at these children and your heart is open.

I don't know how anybody can see the look in these kids' eyes and see what they've endured.

I don't know how anybody can hold a baby who weighs six pounds and can't open her eyes and not say, I have to help this child.

I think we're put in this earth to help children and to guide them.

It's the greatest honor of my life to be in Haiti and to have any kind of effect on these kids.

And