Due to the severe drought in Somalia, Mumina has no food and no breastmilk left to feed her youngest baby.
Today, we made dried tamarind. You crush the tamarind until it’s a sticky paste. Then you add ash and cook it. We’ll eat it this evening. It’s not healthy at all, but at least we have something warm in our bellies.”
— Tsiharatie, a mother of seven children in Madagascar
Both me and my child were very weak. We do not have enough food - just a bit of rice, wheat, and flour, nothing else. Pregnant women here face the risk of death, and they face many other risks. They do a lot of work, and they have no choice because there is no one else to work.”
— Nadia, a mother of five in Afghanistan