Saleh Hassan al-Faqeh holds the hand of his four-month-old daughter, Hajar, who died of malnutrition at the al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 15, 2018. “She was like skin on bones, her body was emaciated,” he said. Hajar was one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from malnutrition in a country that has been pushed to the brink of famine by more than three years of war. (Source: Father mourns baby who died of starvation in Yemen, ABC News, November 15, 2018)
“Who can imagine hunger who has never experienced it, even for one day?
~ May Sarton, The House by the Sea: A Journal