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  • Clockwise from left: Sahara Mahama, 40. Her daughter Mariama, 4. A bucket of millet at Sahara's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Sahara Mahama has seven sons and a daughter. She lost four other children; one of them was only 14 days old. "I lost the youngest one during the rains, in the lean season. I didn't have enough to eat." .Eating has become increasingly harder through the years, recalls Sahara. "When I was a kid, we used to have three meals: in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.? However, one meal a day has now become the norm. "It's never guaranteed, but we try." .Sahara participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. With the money she receives, she buys cereal and gives her children two meals per day.
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  • Clockwise from left: Delou Ibrahim, 70. Her granddaughter Latifa, 8. Delou's hands hold sorrel leaves, used as a condiment, and grains of sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)<br />
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Delou Ibrahim has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Clockwise from left: Mariama Oumarou, 55. Her granddaughter Rakia, 4. A hand holds grains of corn in Mariama's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Mariama Oumarou has ten children and three grandchildren. Through the years she has lost four children and two grandchildren. She participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. "Not only can we buy millet and sorghum now, but also corn and condiments."
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  • 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."
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  • Siti Rofi'ah's son-in-law Jainudin One, 41 (left), eats a snack in his boat with his daughters (from left to right) Kesha, 4; and Refa, 6. Jainudin just returned home after fishing overnight. He and his family live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Mónica ‘Cori’ Jiménez is a single mother with five children. "I grew up alone, in the streets," she said. "I never stole anything and I never took drugs." She survives on government assistance and the community soup kitchen. "If it didn’t exist, I don’t know what would have happened to my life and to the lives of my children." <br />
She used to be a 'cartonera' in downtown Buenos Aires for 15 years. She used to take her children out to beg until, in an argument, her older daughter convinced her that it was wrong. Cori combed trash at the municipal trash dump for three months, but she says she stopped because police beat her often and once shot her in the leg with a rubber bullet. After a childhood of mistreatment, Cori hopes life in 8 de Mayo will offer something better to her kids. <br />
"I am 30 and I already want to die," she told a visitor, slowly and deliberately, with her eyes fixed on the ground. "I want my children to be someone in life."
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  • Siti Rofi'ah's step daughter, Nur San, 22, brings fish ashore from the boat of Jainudin One, who just returned home after fishing overnight. They live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Martha Tilaar (left), founder of the Martha Tilaar Group, and her daughter Wulan Tilaar Widarto pose for a portrait at Martha Tilaar's office in East Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015.
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  • Martha Tilaar (left), founder of the Martha Tilaar Group, and her daughter Wulan Tilaar Widarto pose for a portrait at Martha Tilaar's office in East Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015.
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  • Talia, 70, sieves grains of rice at her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Talia's daughter is a member of Menur, Suparjiyem's cooperative.
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  • Martha Tilaar (right), founder of the Martha Tilaar Group, and her daughter Wulan Tilaar Widarto pose for a portrait at Martha Tilaar's office in East Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015.
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  • Siti Rofi'ah's son-in-law Jainudin One, 41, who just returned home after fishing overnight, carries his daughter Refa, 6, on his shoulders from his boat to the shore. They live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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