{"id":8638,"date":"2018-10-13T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?post_type=stories&p=8638"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:21:49","slug":"madagascar-no-rain-no-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/madagascar-no-rain-no-income","title":{"rendered":"Madag\u00e1scar: Sem chuva, sem rendimento"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI am scared to die from hunger,\u201d\u00a0<\/b>Marie-Julina\u00a0said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cTenho oito filhos e quatro netos a viver comigo\u201d, disse ela. \u201cSou respons\u00e1vel pela sua sobreviv\u00eancia. H\u00e1 oito anos que n\u00e3o temos o suficiente para comer. Plant\u00e1vamos, mas n\u00e3o crescia nada.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my children have never had more than one meal a day.<\/b>\u00a0They have never experienced having enough food to eat. Their stomachs are always gnawing at them. I am very worried about them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marie-Julina\u00a0motions toward the house behind her. It\u2019s tiny,\u00a0doorless, and completely empty except for the straw mats she drags outside to sit on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most<\/b>\u00a0of Marie-<\/b>Julina\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0grandchildren know nothing but hunger.\u00a0<\/b>A lifetime of hollow stomachs is visible in their stunted and frail bodies. Yet they play as any child would. Marie-Julina\u00a0watches them, smiling at their simple games. But she doesn\u2019t know how long it will last\u2014their games, or their\u00a0lives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marie-Julina\u00a0does what she can to earn some income. She collects and sells firewood. And she makes and sells straw mats. But the selling part doesn’t happen very often. Most of her\u00a0neighbors\u00a0struggle too. She feels she\u00a0has to\u00a0do something, even if it is for a\u00a0meager\u00a0and unpredictable income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the rare occasion when she can make a sale, Marie-Julina\u00a0will buy three cassava. She cuts the tubers (much like a potato) into small pieces and boils them. Then she divides them between her family\u2014all 13 of them. Think of it\u2014three large potatoes (and nothing additional) to feed more than a dozen people!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This will be their only meal for the entire day. And perhaps the next, and for who knows how long after that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I don\u2019t have enough money to buy cassava, we look for cactus fruit,\u201d she said. Some of her\u00a0neighbors\u00a0have planted cactus as fences around their houses. Marie-Julina\u00a0and the children will walk through the village to find what they can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone is suffering in Marie-Julina\u2019s\u00a0village. Most of the other families have fathers and husbands that help provide. Marie-Julina\u00a0faces each day alone; the survival of her children rests on her shoulders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Harvest and heartache go hand in hand for Marie-Julina\u00a0and her family.\u00a0\u00a0 For the past eight years, the drought has multiplied her family\u2019s suffering. No rain means no crops. No crops mean no income. No income means no food. No food means, well, eventually someone will die.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTenho medo de morrer de fome\u201d, disse Marie-Julina.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTenho oito filhos e quatro netos a viver comigo\u201d, disse ela. \u201cSou respons\u00e1vel pela sua sobreviv\u00eancia. H\u00e1 oito anos que n\u00e3o temos o suficiente para comer. Plant\u00e1vamos, mas n\u00e3o crescia nada.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[615,609,284,558],"tags":[1079,873],"class_list":["post-8638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-food-assistance","category-health","category-nutrition","tag-crisis","tag-justice-compassion-love"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46606,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8638\/revisions\/46606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}