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Explore the lives of Mariam, Mukta, and Reuben as they navigate the challenges of food insecurity and agriculture in Kenya, Bangladesh, and Malawi. Through vivid photographs, discover the similarities and differences between their lives and the places they call home.
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World Food Day 2012: KS2 Pupils at Langobaya school, Kenya, collect their school lunch as part of ActionAid’s school feeding programme. PHOTO: SØREN BJERREGAARD/ACTIONAID. ActionAid schools | September 2012
Can you guess the name of this food? Thikhala Chilembwe, 14 ,from Malawi. PHOTO: CAMERON MCNEE/MISSIONMALAWI//ACTIONAID Margret David harvests a healthy crop from her garden in Malawi. PHOTO: ACTIONAID
Why has this maize crop dried up? Can you think of three reasons? The Yaa family's failed maize crop in Langobaya, Kenya. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
MariamYaa, 10, collects water and tends the family’s goats in Langobaya, Kenya. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID Mariam Yaa, 10, at her homestead in Langobaya, Kenya. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
What type of food do you think is in the two bowls? Karisa, Mariam and Karembo Yaa at home in Langobaya, Kenya. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID
Why do you think some people go hungry? Complete the first column only!
Mukta and her friends in their home village in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh. TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID Mukta’s mother Shofikun in the community paddy fields in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
What farming jobs do you think Mukta is doing? Mukta and her mother Shofikun. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID Mukta in the family's vegetable garden. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID Muktaand her mother Shofikun. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID
Why do you think some people go hungry? Complete the second column only!
Reuben plays with his village friends. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID Reuben Chidimba with a baby goat at home in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Describe what you see in this picture. Do you think it would be easy or difficult to grow food in this area? Typical landscape in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0
Thabu Chidimba, a smallholder farmer in the fields she shares with other local women. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
What links all these pictures together? Lina Gondwe helping sprouting maize plants to grow. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID Contrast between maize grown on compost-fed soil in the background and maize grown without compost in the foreground, Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID Compost heaps made by women farmers in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Thabu and other women farmers on their irrigated land in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID
Think about Mariam, Mukta and Reuben. What are the similarities and difference between their lives and the places where they live?