A young mother resting with her baby, born early that morning, in Binkolo Health Center. The baby, weighed immediately after birth, was underweight. 

A baby being weighed at the Binkolo Health Center. 

A mother and her baby at the Binkolo Health Center where women go to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center 

Mothers waiting to be seen at the Binkolo Health Center to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in Binkolo 

Mothers waiting to be seen at the Binkolo Health Center to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in Binkolo 

A mother nursing her children at the Binkolo Health Center as she waits to have them weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in 

A mother and child with their food supplements in hand from the World Food Programme Food Distribution Center at the Binkolo Health Center. 

A child is measured at Binkolo Health Center. 

Women and children eating and chatting outside the Binkolo Health Center where they have received nutritional food supplements from the World Food Programme distribution center, inside. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young woman sick with malaria lying on a foam mattress outside her home in a shantytown in Aberdeen, Freetown. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A father feeding his infant imported baby food in a shantytown in Aberdeen, Freetown. 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor at the wholesale market at Waterloo selling bananas and potatoes. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young boy watering his mother's vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young boy watering his mother's vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young woman using a shard of glass as a mirror while preparing for a night out in a shanty town in Aberdeen, Freetown. 

A mother of three, attending her stall at Aberdeen Market. Like others at Aberdeen Market, she built her stall on her own. She has been working there for three years. She complains that this year, the 

MALAWI 2008. MALAWI 2008. A villager with his son during an interview with FAO media and communications staff at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit at the Kankau Health Centre in the Balaka District.