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chad march 2022
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Resource ID
90679
Access
Open
Contributed by
Joseph Naim
Consent form provided?
Yes
Region
Central and East Africa
Style
Close-up, Wide Shot, Portrait
Focal point
Centre, Right Third, Left third, Looking at camera, Looking down at camera
Subject Keywords
Boy, Boys, Girls, Girl, Children, Man, Infant, Adult Group, Women, Woman
Moods and Emotions
Active, Smiling, Sad, Thoughtful, Talking
Image size
3456x5184
Country
Chad
Theme
Humanitarian response, Food security and nutrition, Women’s economic empowerment
Camera make / model
Canon EOS 700D
Keywords
Advocacy, Food, Fundraising, Refugee/displaced people, Refugee camps, Rural, Schools
Copyright
CARE International
Date Image Taken
24 February 22
Caption
Hawa, 32, arrived in Malfana with her 6 children, aged between 17 and 4, in September 2021. “I am also taking care of my 9-year-old nephew. His mom abandoned him when he was very young and he has lived with me ever since,” she said.
In her village of Honkol in Cameroon, Hawa lived on petty trade, selling various consumer products at the market.
“Today we have to live with hunger. Here, there is very little to eat. I also cannot afford to buy food for my children. Often I spend a whole day not eating just to save the little I have for my kids. I feed them once a day, sometimes twice. With the little means I have, I cook porridge that I serve them sparingly,” she says.
Showing a plate of tiny grilled fish to which her youngest child clings, Hawa explains: “With an old mosquito net, my elders go to the Logone River to try to catch small fish. Sometimes they work in the fields but all that is not enough”.
Often, she feeds them wild fruits picked in the bush.
“When we arrived, we had nothing, neither mats nor blankets. We spent our nights in the cold,” she adds. In this part of Chad, in autumn and at the beginning of winter, the temperature is mild and it becomes quite cool at night, especially at the edge of the river.
Traumatized by what she has seen over the past few months and wracked with worry about not being able to feed her children, Hawa says, "Every night before I go to sleep, I wonder if we're going to survive until next day and every morning when I wake up, I thank God because we are still alive”.
“I would like to go back to my village, live quietly as before. But nothing is guaranteed. I don't want to go back to see myself having to leave again and find myself once again without anything, not even a mat to sleep on, ” she says.
Marker lat / long: 15, 19 (WGS84)
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