These photos were taken before FHI began its therapeutic feeding center intervention. Click here for more information on FHI's program to aid these families. Click on each photo to see an enlarged version. Ashe Dek Abdi Tawakal and her children inside their hut. This baby shows sign of skin irrigations and infections, which arise when there isn't enough water for children to be bathed properly.
Women sell leaves call chat in a local market.
Chat leaves are a drug that are regularly chewed by many in Ethiopia. In times of drought farmers will give their best land to chat cultivation, rather than to food crops, because they know that the demand for the habit-forming drug will remain constant and they will be able to sell the chat leaves to buy food. Overview of the village of Fafan. A girl waits outside her hut, make of sticks overlayed with cloth, grass and animal skins. Halima most probably suffered from tuberculosis in addition to malnutrition, making her more likely to lose the battle against hunger.