“There are no easy solutions when hunger comes to stay inside our families. When last year the drought left us without the fruit of our harvest. And emptied our barns of what we always need to live.
There is no place where we can go to help us.
There is no comfort to free ourselves from the pain of seeing ours starve.
There is no family of the family strong enough to stay by our side sharing our effort to resist.
Many times, man wins fear. And he prefers to absent, escape, leave us at the forefront of a problem that we do not know how to solve.
He tells us that he goes somewhere to look for what we need to eat. But many times he doesn't return.
We always stay. Near our children and our grandchildren. We invent small solutions that are able to deceive hunger so great that it surrounds us.
We help each other as much as we can. Because we know each other. We know who we are.
It was always like this. It will continue to be like that. "
The school bank was taken abroad. Women were offered as a resting place waiting for them to give them the corn sack that the NGO Aigua Per Al Sahel, in his emergency campaign against hunger, he had agreed to distribute in his area.
The men present in the place showed agitation and joy while the bags were downloaded from the trucks and stacked in the ground.
The women remained calm. Sitting in a bank or on the ground. Speaking between them. Feeding their children. In peace.
Pepe Navarro
Burkina Faso, July 2018
The African woman faces hunger
