“I gave up Hopes of Hassan’s Survival after his brother died of Malnutrition”-Hajara
The day 30-year old Hajara Sani, gave birth to her set of twins, Hassan and Hussaini, her joy knew no bounds. Neighbors gathered to cheer and celebrate. The air around the makeshift mud house where Hajara lives with her Husband and grandmother was ecstatic. Here, it is a custom for the people to celebrate such moments.
As days coalesce into weeks, deep within lies a bigger trial for Hajara, enveloping the initial sensation created by good neighbors on the birth of her set of twins, as she continues to watch them emaciate and looking famished. She was high and dry. The silence with which she watches her twin wear away was so thick that you could put your hands through it.
That is how it looks when poverty and hunger makes you think where your next meal will come from. Every day, until the intervention that came and changed life’s course for Hajara and her family, she would seat down to watch her kids, concerned and apprehensive.
”Most times I just look at Hassan and Hussaini quietly as they become lean and sick not knowing what to do. Things have been tough for us since we fled Baga to this town as a result of continuous attacks by insurgents in 2016” Hajara Said. “My breast milk was not flowing because I was also sick and hardly finds good food to eat”
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