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a life free from hunger
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“My daughter is weak and always pale”
“My oldest daughter, who is seven, is weak and always pale. She’ll be
eating and then she’ll just collapse. I took her to the doctor one year
ago and he told me she was anaemic. He gave us drugs and told us
to come back and do the test again some months later. But I wasn’t
working then and I couldn’t afford the second test.
“Her face and hands are still pale and yellow, and sometimes she falls
when she’s playing. The doctor told me it was malnutrition. It’s our
lack of money and the fact that food doesn’t have as many vitamins
as it used to. I’m paid only 150 pounds a month and I can’t afford to
give them the healthy food they need.”
Warda, Egypt
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