An Appetite for Vitamins

Memunatu is a five year old girl who lives with her parents and an extended family member in a single bedroom apartment with electricity but no running water in the Wellington community of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Memunatu’s father is an electrician and the main provider of their home with a monthly income of $50 which is not enough to cover their basic family needs; her mother is a house wife. Memunatu attends the Vicrays Community Primary School and she is in class one; she wants to be a medical doctor when she grows up.

Memunatu and her parents express their thanks for the vitamin supplements, as this will increase her appetite to eat. She has been a poor eater and nutrition is vital to her health as she grows up.