From war zones, photographer brings scars and searing images
Sebastian Rich has covered every major war and conflict of the past 30 years. He has been wounded several times, kidnapped and held hostage while on assignment as a photographer and television cameraman.
Children in Conflict, an exhibition at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is showcasing a selection of images from Rich’s career alongside a new body of work produced for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. The new collection illustrates the plight of Afghan refugees in the Jalozai refugee camp in Pakistan.
A terribly malnourished Afghan baby boy in a UNICEF Therapeutic feeding center in Herat, Afghanistan. His fate is unknown to me. link
Hunger is most urgent threat to children worldwide
For the first time in a decade, the number of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition has risen, threatening the substantial progress made in child health and education in the developing world.
Niger: Habou’s story
the stroy of a little boy, in niger, and his home in niger. how he is found ill with malnutrition and how he is getting treatment from Save the Children link
Niger Revisiting an Unfinished Crisis
Seasonal hunger in the Sahel has once again escalated into a major food crisis. In Niger, shortfalls in food production, rising food prices and on-going poverty have pushed tens of thousands of families into food insecurity and thousands of children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. copyright http://www.sambronx-photo.ch Samuel Hauenstein Swan link
The Water Children of Jamam Refugee Camp, South Sudan.
The sprawling Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan houses 36,500 vulnerable people who have fled across the border from their homes in Blue Nile state to escape the ongoing fighting between Khartoum’s government troops and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army – North.
Photographs and Text by Tom Stoddart
Food and nutrition crisis in Sahel region of Africa
A potentially catastrophic food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa could affect as many as one million children. The food and nutrition crisis resulting from a severe drought, threatens the survival of an entire generation of children. Those children in eight countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal – are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. Sparse rainfall, poor harvests and rising food prices have left many vulnerable and weak, seeking medical attention. Sahel is one of the poorest regions in the world where children already face daunting odds of survival. The current crisis makes their survival even more tenuous. Associated Press photographer, Ben Curtis, documented the conditions in the region. — Paula Nelson (EDITORS NOTE: We will not be posting Monday, May 14) (32 photos total)
Sahel food crisis: Chadian women describe the hardships they face
In some parts of west Africa, water levels have become dangerously low and pastureland has disappeared. The UN estimates more than 13 million people are at risk of serious food shortages. Here, Chadian women in the Bahr-el-Ghazal and Guera provinces speak about the poor harvest over the last few years and the difficulties they have in feeding their children. Photographer Andy Hall link
Situation in Southern Kordofan by CHRIS KELLY
In January this year, I crossed over from Yida refugee camp situated on the border between South Sudan and Sudan, into the Nuba Mountains in Southern Kordofan; a state roughly the size of France. I went to meet the Sudanese People Liberation Army – Northern Sector (SPLA-N), a rebel army that have been fighting a war with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since June 2011. All the international media, NGO’s and aid agencies that pulled out then have yet to return. link
World Press Photo Winner from 1955-2011 that highlighted hunger
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2005
The fingers of malnourished Alassa Galisou (1) are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding center. One of the worst droughts in recent times, together with a particularly heavy plague of locusts that had destroyed the previous year’s harvest, left millions of people severely short of food. (Finbarr O’Reilly)
2001
The body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared for burial at Jalozai refugee camp. The child’s family, originally from North Afghanistan, had sought refuge in Pakistan from political instability and the consequences of drought. The family gave the photographer permission to attend as they washed and wrapped his body in a white funeral shroud, according to Muslim tradition. In the overcrowded Jalozai camp, 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan endured squalid conditions. (Erik Refner)
1992
A mother carries her dead child to the grave, after wrapping it in a shroud according to local custom. A bad drought coupled with the effects of civil war caused a terrible famine in Somalia which claimed the lives of between one and two million people over a period of two years, more than 200 a day in the worst affected areas. The international airlift of relief supplies which started in July was hampered by heavily armed gangs of clansmen who looted food storage centers and slowed down the distribution of the supplies by aid organizations. (James Nachtwey)
1980
A starving boy and a missionary in Uganda. (Mike Wells)
1979
A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp. (David Burnett)
1974
The Faces of Hunger. A mother comforts her child, both victims of drought. (Ovie Carter)
Uncovering the Sadness of Young Deaths
By ROD NORDLAND
KABUL, Afghanistan – Inside the family hut, only women and close male relatives were allowed to mourn over the body of the baby boy, Khan Mohammad, who had died earlier that morning.
memory by David Gillanders
memory
If it’s true that we humans learn from our mistakes in life then I should have been a genius at the age of 14. That’s according to my wee mum, who it must be said has had more than her fair share of worries since bringing me into the world. It was impossible for me to understand this until I had kids of my own.
I can still remember vividly the births of both of my sons and the overwhelming emotions that pulsed through me. The desire to keep them safe, to protect them, to teach them and give them better experiences and opportunities in life than I had. All of these emotions grow as your child grows, they develop as they do and become stronger.
It’s with this in mind that I want to write about the story behind a photograph I took in Malawi in March 2006.
I was spending a few weeks there with the charity Concern to make a photo story about dreadful food shortages which were blighting the country. Myself and a writer Alan Martin lived in a village called Mgwindhi, in central Nkhotakota, where we slept on the floor of the chiefs hut. It was an incredible experience where we were shown the most amazing hospitality and kindness by everyone we met. As part of our work we visited a clinic where we met a young woman called Enifa Banda. Enifa was 30 years old and had walked for days to attend the clinic with her 6 month old twin babies. The babies were called Mercy and Memory.
Even as I type this now I can’t make sense of the unbearable pain Enifa must have endured. Herself malnourished Enifa was producing hardly any breast milk for one child let alone two hungry babies. She had been forced to make an unthinkable decision. Enifa had to pick which child she should feed in attempt to keep one of her children alive. She named the child she fed Mercy, and the second child who was given no milk whilst she tried to find help was called Memory.
When Enifa made it to the clinic it was already too late for poor little Memory. In the photograph below Enifa cradles Mercy as Memory struggles for breath on the bed at her mothers side.
We heard later that Memory lived for a few hours after we left the clinic and then passed away at her mothers side.
The helper: Treating malnutrition in Ethiopia
Over 16,700 severely malnourished patients, mostly children, have been cared for so far in MSF programmes in Oromiya and SNNP regions of Ethiopia. Among them, 2,071 children suffering from medical complications were admitted to five stabilisation centres where they received 24-hour medical attention. Another 14,700 severely malnourished children have received nutritional treatment and food rations on an ambulatory basis in a network of 44 outpatient therapeutic programmes (OTP). Supplementary food rations made up of a corn and soja blend with oil and sugar have also been provided to 1,700 moderately malnourished children and their families.
http://msf.ca/blogs/photos/2009/01/05/malnutrition-in-ethiopia/
Mother holds her child
Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished son Abdulrahman Abshir, 7 months, at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu on Aug. 14.
hunger in the horn of africa | jan grarup
The droughts affecting the Horn of Africa since July 2011 are labelled by the UN as the worst ones in over half a century, they put an estimated 12 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in need of relief.
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Dominic Nahr: Somalia: The Catastrophic Famine (Magnum: September 2011)
There is no children’s laughter here. Most are too weak to even cry out. Almost all of the patients in the children’s wing of the Banadir hospital die within hours of their arrival of malnutrition related illnesses and diseases.
Over 2.8 million people are at risk of starvation and hundreds of thousands of Somalis are on the verge of dying, while the UN declares that large swathes of the country are in a crisis.
Dominic Nahr: Somalia: The Catastrophic Famine (Magnum: September 2011)
Kevin Carter
three months after photojournalist Kevin Carter won the Purlizer price, of a undernourished girl in Sudan, he committed suicide
source: Ad Busters UK
The children of Dadaab: Life through the lens
Through my video “The children of Dadaab: Life through the Lens” I wanted to tell the story of the Somali children living in Kenya’s Dadaab. Living in the world’s largest refugee camp, they are the ones bearing the brunt of Africa’s worst famine in sixty years.
I wanted to see if I could tell their story through a different lens, showing their daily lives instead of just glaring down at their ribbed bodies and swollen eyes.
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2011/10/25/the-children-of-dadaab-life-through-the-lens/
Eyes from behind the mirror
the same body of work as below but more extensive …. great work!
Damir Sagolj
The opinions expressed are his own
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2011/10/07/eyes-from-behind-the-mirror/
A View of Hunger in North Korea
Damir Sagolj, a Bangkok-based Reuters photographer, was among a group of journalists invited last week by North Korea’s Economy and Trade Information Center to document the food crisis in the country’s farm belt. North Korea has appealed for food aid after a harsh winter and a series of summer floods and storms, but so far, only 30 percent of a United Nations aid target has been met.
Famine in Africa’s Horn
Lynsey Addario / VII for Newsweek
Somalia has long been synonymous with the concept of the “failed state.” Lingering civil wars have prolonged the suffering of its people almost to the point of numbness for Westerners distracted by issues closer to home. Now a drought plagues the Horn of Africa, and while thousands have already died, if aid does not soon arrive a further three quarters of a million may die as well, according to the latest U.N. estimates. “It is hard to grasp the scope of a famine so far away,” writes Lynsey Addario in this week’s NEWSWEEK. “In the U.S., we struggle to fight obesity in our youth while children in Kenya and Somalia, and throughout the Horn of Africa, die daily from malnutrition or complications from malnutrition due to a weakened immune system.” Traveling through Somalia and Kenya, Addario’s haunting photographs capture a terrible reality. Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu is so crowded it has run out of beds. Children dying of malnutrition languish in garbage-strewn hallways. Desperate mothers administer their children’s feeding tubes in the absence of adequate medical staff. In the country’s displaced persons camps, thousands shelter in tents pieced together with tarp fragments and plastic, and the scourge of measles is rampant. Each morning the fathers walk to a makeshift cemetery to bury last night’s child victims. – Meredith Bennett-Smith
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/10/09/somalia-kenya-famine-photos.html
Somalis seek refuge in Ethiopian camps – in pictures
by Samuel Hauenstein Swan – sambronx-photo.ch
Families fleeing drought in Somalia cross the border into Ethiopia and seek help in the Dollo Ado refugee camps
Families from Somalia walk for days, and even weeks, to reach the Dollo Ado refugee complex in Ethiopia, and arrive exhausted and dehydrated. Hundreds of children and pregnant women are malnourished and need special therapeutic foods to help them to recover
see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2011/oct/08/ethiopia-somalia-refugee-camps?newsfeed=true#/?picture=379837249&index=0
Dollo Ado: on the Somalia border (www.sambronx-photo@bluewin.ch)
© Samuel Hauenstein Swan - Sep 2011
Fleeing the humanitarian crisis in South-central Somalia
1 million of Somalis have been on the move within the country and crossing the borders fleeing the humanitarian crisis that ignited earlier this year. Civil war, violence, lack of development, lack of relief assistance, and the impact of global warming have made these people extremely weakened, and malnourishment and opportunistic infections are rife. This set of picture document them crossing the border into Ethiopia in search of relief.
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