When Mariya Ndenizako realised her 9-month-old boy Eliya was dangerously malnourished, she carried him 15km to the therapeutic feeding centre in Kirundo.
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“My husband has gone to look for food," says Euphrasie Ndayisenga. "He went a month ago, to find farm work. I went there to get the food he had earned – potatoes and beans. He is paid in food. He doesn’t get money.”
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Virginiya Misago has been to harvest her rice crop. But the tarpaulin she took to hold the grain is empty. The crop has failed.
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One of Faraziya Uzamukuna's five children already has the pot belly indicative of kwashiorkor – protein malnutrition. The green leaves now stewing over the fire are all the family will eat tonight.
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