In another milestone, a little girl named Hauwa, who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Borno State, has been saved through the Save the Children-supported Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP).
This is coming a few days after the release of the hunger crisis in the northeast region by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which noted how conflicts and activities of the terrorist groups Boko Haram/ISWAP forced thousands into an unbearable acute hunger situation.
However, in the release of Hauwa’s recovery report by Save the Children, they revealed that the child’s mother, Maimuna, tragically fell ill some months back, a situation that led to her not being able to breastfeed Hauwa, as there was no one to adequately take care of and feed her.
Despite being born to entrepreneurs—as the father, Abdullahi, works as an iron bender and farmer, while the mother sells female veils and male caps in Maiduguri—they couldn’t afford to provide for the child, as insecurity had reduced them to vulnerability and financial hardship.
As a consequence, the child became malnourished, adding to the number of children suffering from acute malnutrition due to the crippled economy caused by terrorism in the country.
To Hauwa’s aid, a volunteer from Save Children, who was doing a health sensitisation house-to-house engagement, saw the child’s condition and referred them to the Children-supported Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) of the organisation, their statement read.
To that development, the child was treated and provided with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), which improved her health condition, and she later fully recovered.
Reacting to the development, the parents, Maimunana and Abdullahi, express their gratitude to the organisation for how they saved little Hauwaa, who now works freely and plays around with other children without any health threats or complications.
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