World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

During her recent visit to southern Somalia, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran met Huxun and her son Sadik, who'd walked for miles to get there. Huxun told the Executive Director she wasn't sure if her son was going to make it.

A mother carries her baby on her back into supplementary feeding center in Dolo, Somalia, where he will receive nutritional products specially designed for children.

A woman stands outside the hospital in Dadaab where her child is being treated for severe malnutrition.

This severely malnourished child arrived from Somalia at  Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp and is being treated at the Medecins Sans Frontier hospital in Dagahaley. Copyright:WFP/Rose Ogola.

"We came to save ourselves," says Halima who walked with her 4 children for 10 days in order to find food in the Dolo Ado refugee camp. 

Both of Fatuma's children died a day after arriving at Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya. They walked for 10 days from Somalia and had no food for 3 days.

This mother and her baby are new arrivals at Dadaab Refugee camp in Kenya. On reception, WFP provides refugees with a 15 day food ration and regular rations upon registration.