By September, the crowd had grown again, but not because of anything we posted online. At this stage, we weren't focused on social media at all. Our attention was on communities where social media barely reached, places where people lived in remote settings and had embraced traditional and cultural treatment practices that were often harmful. When those practices failed and led to death, it was sickle cell that got blamed, not the treatment itself. So it was word of mouth, carried from warrior to warrior, community to community, that brought more people to us. By September, we even had people joining us from outside our immediate reach, the earliest sign that this foundation was no longer going to stay confined to where it started. This was the beginning of our expansion into other states. Warriors gathered again at the medication tables. Our team stood among the crowd in the same white and green uniforms, our story spreading not through a feed, but through people who had lived it and believed it enough to tell someone else.