When Amiatu Yusuf and her almost one-year-old twins came for a routine check-up, the doctors examined, weighed and listened to the baby’s breathing. Hamida was healthy. Sauda was too small and too dry for her age.
Amiatu was also exhausted. She was a mother of five, a single mother, without enough money, food and support. She ate only once a day, most often just a bowl of thick corn porridge.
She didn’t have enough milk for both of her babies. There was no money for meat, vegetables or fruit. Even more fatal was the fact that she didn’t have any knowledge about what the baby really needed in the earliest period.
“Without a group, I might have lost Sauda. Maybe I wouldn’t have survived myself,” Amiatu, 36, says today. The doctors gave her Chiponde, a nutritious paste made from peanut butter, at that time.
It is a food supplement that is used to help children with growth problems.
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