GUIDAN IDER VILLAGE, NIGER, 27TH JULY 2010: Mother with twins at a feeding centre run by Christian Aid partner HEKS
GUIDAN IDER VILLAGE, NEAR KONNI, NIGER, 27TH JULY 2010: Feeding centre started in 2004 by Christian Aid partner HEKS in partnership with GADRA. Hasia Loumaeou, 30 with her 7 month old twin boys, Hassan and Hussain. "I can't feed my children properly as I have no milk in my breasts. We have been hungry for 3 months. I can't find work and my husband is having to cut grass to sell in the market as animal feed. Life is very difficult and if the the rains fail and the harvest is very bad I fear that my youngest children may die. Sometimes we go to bed hungray and the other four children have no food all day. Some of them have diarrhoea and are getting sick." Very poor rains in 2009 and late rains this season has led to severe food insecurity in many areas of Niger. Since last September food prices have risen by approximately 25%. Other factors affecting family's ability to feed themselves and their livestock include worsening wind and soil erosion, a staggering 3% population growth, increasing mortality rates and rising temperatures. Even if the rains now falling improve, the harvest itself is predicted to yield only 50% of what would be expected in a year of good rainfall. Photo by Mike Goldwater / Christian Aid
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