Portraits of mothers/grandmothers, children/grandchildren, and food (triptychs)

Clockwise from left: Maka Ali, 80. Her granddaughter Maria, 10. Maka's hands hold sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Maka Ali has been a widow for twenty years. She has eight children and about twenty grandchildren. She has experienced the loss of six children, four of them at an early age. "I was alone taking care of them, so I cannot say their deaths weren't related to lack of food," Maka recalls..Nobody in her family can work, so she receives a cash transfer from CARE. "When I receive the payment, I buy sorghum and maize," Maka explains. "Before this support, I couldn't; I was eating leaves."

Add to Cart Add to Lightbox Download

Filename: Slide3-RO.NER.2012.05.0048.triptych.BW.jpg
Copyright: Rodrigo Ordonez
Image Size: 6066x4105 / 9.2MB; Africa B&W CARE CFW Niger Sahel aid black and white cash for work cash-for-work children close-up communities community community recovery daughters day daylight details development elderly elders emergencies emergency families family female food food crisis food security gender grandmothers homes horizontal houses humanitarian hunger huts indoors inside interiors kids labor labour mothers nutrition old olderly olders portraits recovery relief response triptychs woman women work
Contained in galleries: Niger: Sahel food crisis

Clockwise from left: Maka Ali, 80. Her granddaughter Maria, 10. Maka's hands hold sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Maka Ali has been a widow for twenty years. She has eight children and about twenty grandchildren. She has experienced the loss of six children, four of them at an early age. "I was alone taking care of them, so I cannot say their deaths weren't related to lack of food," Maka recalls..Nobody in her family can work, so she receives a cash transfer from CARE. "When I receive the payment, I buy sorghum and maize," Maka explains. "Before this support, I couldn't; I was eating leaves."