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  • Karamatjon Yakubova, 73, poses for a photograph at her family compound in Bazar Korgon (Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan).
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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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  • A woman washes clothes using water from a well in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Since residents from this area can no longer use the water from the Citarum river, they must use underground water, which is often contaminated because of filtrations. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • 4-month-old Islam and his mother Altyani pose for a photograph at Children's State Hospital in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Save the Children is providing this hospital with medicines and medical equipment to treat anemia and respiratory infections such as pneumonia, which are common among pregnant women, mothers and children.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49, cuts grass at a plot of land she rents near her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Community leader Suparjiyem, 49 (left), gets emotional while giving money and other items to Sumikem, 59 (center), a member of farmer's cooperative Menur, in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Sumikem's husband Rajiman, 63 (right), had a stroke seven years ago.
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  • Ms Sriwi Diangsih, 33, bathes her two-month-old baby girl Rahmawati in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Since residents from this area can no longer use the water from the Citarum river, they must use underground water, which is often contaminated because of filtrations, or buy bottled water. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Karamatjon Yakubova, 73, talks to visitors at her family's home in Bazar Korgon (Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan), built by Save the Children with funding from UNHCR. One of her grandchildren looks in through the window.
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  • A rainbow appears in the sky as local residents check rice covered by a tarpaulin in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. On the foreground (left) is Suparjiyem's mother Jumiati, 69.
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  • Clockwise from left: Sakina Moudi (left), 30, and Halima Abdou, 25. Their children Kassoumou (right), 4, and Massaoudou, 10 months. Sakina takes sorghum out of a sack at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Halima Abdou has five children. Sakina Moudi has six children and suffered the loss of one..Last year they harvested 40kg of cereal. "It only lasted for five days," says Sakina. This year they didn't get any crops. .In the periods without food, their husband collects and sells wood to buy yam flour. Now their husband participates in CARE's cash-for-work project and continues to sell firewood to get additional income. "With this support, we get to eat abundantly," explains Halima. "We buy millet, sorghum, and corn." They serve their children two meals per day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
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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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  • Menur cooperative member Wagiyem, 51, digs up 'ganyong,' a tuber, from the garden in front of her house while her granddaughter Alifia, 5, looks on. They live in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • A local man unloads bundles of rice off a pickup truck in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Rice is the most dominant crop and staple food in this area.
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  • (From left to right) Moussa, 5, Maimouna, 11, and Awa, 3, pose for a photograph with their parents Maka, 33, and Toumari, 38, outside their family home in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire.<br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
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  • Farmer Kastomo, around 65 years of age, sows corn seeds in a field in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem's husband Kaspi, 58, burns grass at a yard behind their home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Mucina, 50, sells fruits, vegetables, and other merchandise at the market in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Marto, 70 (right), and Sukiyo, 66 (left), sell conical hats to a customer at their market stand in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Customers pick and pay for carrots at the market in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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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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  • Menur cooperative member Sarniati, 48 (right), arranges bundles of rice at her family home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Her daughter-in-law Andri Astuti, 30 (left), and her mother Talia, 70 (center), are spreading grains of rice to dry.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49, walks back home carrying a bundle of grass to feed her cattle. She lives in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49 (foreground), swats grasshoppers off a rice field in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. She and her fellow farmers are collectively harvesting each other's rice.
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  • Suparjiyem's husband Kaspi, 58, loads rice bundles onto a pickup truck in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Farmers are coming together to collectively harvest each other's rice.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49, poses for a photograph at her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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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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  • Samiyah, 45 (right), is a landless farmer who works for others as a daily laborer; she is not a member of the female farmers organization led by Suparjiyem. Sitting by the front door of her house, she shows the daily meal she will share with her son Reno, 12 (right): a plate of rice and a plate of noodles. In the image (left) is also her mother Wati, around 80 years of age. They live in the village of Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem's mother Jumiati, 69, walks around her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Grains of rice are spread on the floor, left to dry.
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  • Detail of a fried grasshopper on the palm of a hand. Grasshoppers are considered a delicacy and regularly eaten in certain parts of Java, Indonesia.
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  • Trihandayani, 52, sieves grains of rice at Suparjiyem's parents' home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. She is one of Suparjiyem's in-laws and mother of four.
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  • Delou Ibrahim, 70, poses for a photograph at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. <br />
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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  • 7-month-old Ariet (left) and Abdusamad, 1, pose for a photograph with their mothers Mirgul and Nilufar at Children's State Hospital in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Save the Children is providing this hospital with medicines and medical equipment to treat anemia and respiratory infections such as pneumonia, which are common among pregnant women, mothers and children.
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  • Matlubahan Umarjanova (left), 60, and a relative leave her family's home in Osh (Kyrgyzstan). With equipment and materials provided by Save the Children, she reopened her business, a kiosk selling groceries and common household items.
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