Why Do We Have to Wait For a Crisis?
14 October 2011
In the Starved for Attention film “Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?” photojournalist Lynsey Addario documents the food crisis in Somalia and northeastern Kenya. All children have the same nutritional needs to grow and thrive. It shouldn’t take a war or famine to occur before vulnerable children have access to a healthy diet. http://www.starvedforattention.org/
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| Somali refugees wait in Liboi, right across the Kenyan border, to be relocated to Dagahaley camp by the IOM, August 20, 2011. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, is the largest refugee camps in the world. The horn of Africa is suffering one of the worst droughts in years, displacing thousands, and killing others through severe malnutrition. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| Men prepare a grave for a child who died the previous night of malnutrition-related illness. In a graveyard on the outskirts of Dagahaley camp in Dadaab |
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| Mothers and children wait in MSF's health post 8 for the children to be weighed and measured and to receive RUTF for the severely malnourished children and supplementary therapeutic food and protection rations (rice or maize and beans or lentils and oil) for the other members of the family. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| Somali refugees seek shelter on the outskirts of Dagahaley camp in Dadaab after fleeing a prolonged drought in Somalia, August 20, 2011. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is grossly over capacity, and the refugees experience an ever-shrinking access to essential services such as water, sanitation, food and shelter, also because they have been sharing their rations with the new arrivals. At the current pace of arrival MSF estimates that the camp's population will total 500'000 before the end of 2011, and living conditions are only expected to deteriorate further. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| A man prepares a field for a local planting effort in Meyan, a village in Turkana. Doctors without Borders staff handles a food distribution on behalf of WFP, and conduct an ambulatory therpeutic feeding program for severely malnourished children in the village of Meyan, in Turkana, Kenya, August 15, 2011. The horn of Africa is suffering one of the worst droughts in years, displacing thousands, and killing others through severe malnutrition. In response to the increasing severity of the situation MSF is operating an emergency nutrition intervention in Turkana. Severely malnourished children with complications are treated in the government hospital and monitored by MSF staff in Lokituan, Turkana. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| MSF staff handles a food distribution on behalf of WFP, and conduct an ambulatory therpeutic feeding program for severely malnourished children in the village of Mayan, in Turkana, Kenya, August 15, 2011. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| MSF staff handles a food distribution on behalf of WFP, and conduct an ambulatory therpeutic feeding program for severely malnourished children in the village of Mayan, in Turkana, Kenya, August 15, 2011. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| The gate around MSF's health post 8 in the outskirts of Dagahaley camp in Dadaab near the Kenyan border with Somalia, August 21, 2011. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| MSF staff handles a food distribution on behalf of WFP, and conduct an ambulatory therpeutic feeding program for severely malnourished children in the village of Mayan, in Turkana, Kenya. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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| A boy runs playfully near an area where people gather water in Sesame, a village in Turkana. Doctors without Borders staff handles a food distribution on behalf of WFP, and conduct an ambulatory therpeutic feeding program for severely malnourished children in the village of Mayan, in Turkana, Kenya. Photo: Lynsey Addario/VII Photo |
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