Halima Halima is 6 years. The parents are divorced, due to mistreatment by the husband. Halima has a small sister. They live in a mud house; there is no furniture and they eat and sleep on the ground. The mother is collecting bottles and tries to sell them. They are very poor. Halima shows signs of protein deficiency.

Hussein is 7 years old. He lives with his grandmother. His parents are divorced. Hussein is the last born. The neighbors found the child eating from the garbage bin and decided to bring him to the grandmother. The grandmother is poor and can’t afford to take him to school.

Karisa is 7 years old. He lives in a mud house. All five children sleep in one bed. His father is a casual laborer and he is often drunk.

Maimuna is 8 years old. She lives in a mud house with one room. She sleeps with the other children outside in the corridor. The roof is leaking. The environment is smelly, close to the sewage drainage. The father gets sometimes some part-time work in building. There are four older children, but they all dropped out of school because of poverty.