This Christmas, make sure children like Yassira* aren’t forgotten as they face deadly malnutrition.
For families like Khadidja’s*, it’s easy to feel forgotten. Living in fear for your life facing the climate crisis, relentless droughts, flash flooding, and failed harvests. Forced from your home by violence, leaving your land, your community, your life. And just when your crisis reaches the headlines, the world moves on.
Having fled their home in Sudan, Khadidja and Yassira were struggling to survive in a refugee camp in Chad. Every day, seven-month-old Yassira was getting weaker. Her mum worked long, backbreaking hours on a farm, herself weak from lack of food.
We mothers are suffering, and no one is considering our situation. We don’t even have food to put in our children’s stomachs.
You can help mothers like Khadidja save their children from life-threatening malnutrition.
Thanks to people like you, Khadidja had life-saving support nearby. Amongst cramped, make-shift huts and tarp-covered tents, Concern health centres bring vital healthcare to families living on the brink of survival. Khadidja took Yassira to a health centre for urgent care, where we diagnosed her with acute malnutrition.
Yassira was put on a course of emergency therapeutic food, including nutritious, calorie-rich peanut paste. Yassira is finally getting the nutrients she desperately needs, and she is starting to recover.
As Khadidja held Yassira close to her chest, she told us, “We have sons and daughters, and we won’t abandon them. As mothers, we will keep fighting for them. Our children are worth it.”
These are the powerful words of a determined mother who will do anything it takes to keep her children safe. But she can’t do it alone.
Will you help provide therapeutic food before it’s too late? No child should be forgotten this Christmas, and right now, together, we are the best hope for families like Khadidja’s.
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*Names changed for security reasons