{"id":8818,"date":"2019-01-11T04:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?post_type=stories&p=8818"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:49:25","slug":"madagascar-saholys-battle-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/madagascar-saholys-battle-starvation","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar: La batalla de Saholy contra el hambre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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En Madagascar, hace casi dos a\u00f1os que no llueve, la tierra est\u00e1 endurecida y s\u00f3lo alg\u00fan cactus rompe el espantoso mar de color marr\u00f3n, e incluso ellos empiezan a marchitarse por la falta de lluvia.<\/p>\n

Empty. It\u2019s also how you\u2019d describe the eyes of starving children like Saholy. Their stomachs are empty too, and if more is not done, many will die.<\/p>\n

Saholy lives with her grandmother and eight of her siblings and cousins. Home is two small stick huts in the middle of a dusty field.<\/p>\n

Saholy\u2019s grandmother is old and tired, burdened by the responsibility of caring for so many young ones. From her tiny garden, she sells special leaves for a traditional Malagasy dish.<\/p>\n

But Saholy never gets to eat it, nor do any of the children. This garden is what pays their school fees.<\/p>\n

Saholy eats only wild sweet potatoes and cactus fruit, scavenged from the land. But it\u2019s competitive, with scores of families like theirs in the same scenario\u2014and it\u2019s getting harder to find food.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my grandmother doesn\u2019t find potatoes, then we have to go out after school and look for food. Sometimes we walk two to three hours to find anything,\u201d<\/strong> Saholy says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen things are bad, we eat cactus fruit; it isn\u2019t filling,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

As if that isn\u2019t bad enough, there are certain times of the year when the cacti growing around their house don\u2019t produce any fruit at all. When this happens, Saholy and her siblings gather sour tamarind fruit and mix it with water and ash from their fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ash makes the meal more filling and helps it stretch,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

At school, Saholy is a focused student despite the hunger in her belly. She and her classmates sit in the dirt under a makeshift roof, listening to their teacher and copying notes onto their chalkboard slates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be like my grandmother and have to collect wild potatoes to eat,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been hungry for three years.\u201d <\/u><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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