Meet Natacha, a mother in Burkina Faso who struggles for her children's survival every year during the hunger gap, the period in time between harvests when hunger is at its highest.
Excerpt from MSF's monthly podcast, to hear the complete audio visit the Doctors Without Borders Website
More about Natacha & her children
At six months old, Alexis was malnourished. His mother, Natacha, lives alone with her three children in Bowe, a small farming village in northern Burkina Faso. She grows millet but her small field provides only enough food for four months of the year. When the period of the hunger gap - the months when the previous year’s harvest has run out and the next harvest is yet to come – arrives, she has nothing left and her children become vulnerable to malnutrition....