Known as the “hunger gap,” rural malnutrition recurs seasonally in Burkina Faso when crops are scarce and the 80 percent of Burkinabe who depend on subsistence farming lose their primary source of nourishment. In the Starved for Attention Film “A Mother’s Devotion,” photojournalist Jessica Dimmock tenderly captures the heartbreaking emotional strains experienced by a young, hard working mother, Natasha, simply trying to feed her children. Alone at 24, she scavenges firewood to sell in the market. Her meager earnings force an impossible choice: between buying food or medicine for her three children.
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Photo: Burkina Faso 2009 © Jessica Dimmock/VII
