Eleven-month-old Habou Mahhaman, weighing just 3.7 kilograms, is held by his great grandmother outside his home in Dangado village in Guidan Roumji, Maradi, Niger, August 2007. The boy's mother lies inside the family's one-room shack, confined to bed by debilitating back pain. The boy, enrolled in MSF's therapeutic feeding program for malnourished children, had been lost to follow-up since his mother was unable to take him to his regular appointment at an out-patient facility run by MSF. An MSF team tracked him down in his village and transported him to MSF's in-patient facility in Maradi for treatment. [Michael Goldfarb/MSF]

(MSF via China.org.cn December 3, 2008)