Mothers waiting to be seen at the Binkolo Health Center to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in Binkolo 

Mothers waiting to be seen at the Binkolo Health Center to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in Binkolo 

A mother nursing her children at the Binkolo Health Center as she waits to have them weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in 

Women and children eating and chatting outside the Binkolo Health Center where they have received nutritional food supplements from the World Food Programme distribution center, inside. 

A mother and child with their food supplements in hand from the World Food Programme Food Distribution Center at the Binkolo Health Center. 

A baby being weighed at the Binkolo Health Center. 

A young mother resting with her baby, born early that morning, in Binkolo Health Center. The baby, weighed immediately after birth, was underweight. 

A young mother resting with her baby, born early that morning, in Binkolo Health Center. The baby, weighed immediately after birth, was underweight. 

A child is measured at Binkolo Health Center. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A father feeding his infant imported baby food in a shantytown in Aberdeen, Freetown. 

A vendor at the wholesale market at Waterloo selling bananas and potatoes. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor selling bananas and potatoes at the wholesale market in Waterloo. She harvests the bananas herself and purchases the rest of her goods in Waterloo. She is a mother of six and a widow but she 

A vendor displaying the beans she sells from her stall at Aberdeen Market. She is from Kabala, in northern Sierra Leone, but fled to Freetown during the country's civil war. She returns home every yea 

A mother of three, attending her stall at Aberdeen Market. Like others at Aberdeen Market, she built her stall on her own. She has been working there for three years. She complains that this year, the 

Young women carrying firewood to their homes just outside of Gbanka Potho. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A mix of peppers and onions and other goods for sale at Aberdeen Market. Sierra Leone has an abundance of food but prices have increased and many people cannot afford basic items. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Women of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association singing while carrying their rice back from the fields in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A farmer showing eggplants from her vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District.