kilos, eight month old Santiago Mendoza's size has shocked the word.

COMM: Supersize Santiago weighs the same as

an average six-year old child, due to his insatiable appetite.

FATHER: All that's given to him, he eats.

MOTHER: Yes, he eats it all.

COMM: His worried mother, Eunice Fandiño

approached charity, Gorditos del Corazón, in desperate attempt to save Santiago's life.

MOTHER: He suffers from anxiety so to calm

him down, he wants to eat all thew time and he starts crying. He cries day and night,

so I feed him to calm him down, you see.

COMM: The foundation planned to put Santiago

on a diet before carrying out a series of operations. But first he must be taken to

the capital, Bogota.

SALVADOR: Now on our way to Bogota with Santiago.

We will do beautiful work with this kid, with this baby.

COMM: And with help now at hand his family

hope Santiago's health can be managed.

MOTHER: That it's great work what they are

doing with my baby. I trust God and the Foundation that my bany will keep going and lose weight.

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