Meet Nelly. She is 10-years-old and lives in Dzinkunze, Kenya. As part of World Vision’s movement to help build a #hungerfree world, we will follow her story and her family over the next few weeks. Each week, we will share new videos that follow her journey as she and her family begins to live #hungerfree, as well as new articles to better understand hunger and solutions to solve hunger.

For Nelly, daily chores are more than just tasks to be completed. They are a way to make sure her family has enough food for each day. When she cares for the community’s goats, she knows that the families in Dzinkunze will help take care of each other. When there isn’t enough food for her and her siblings, they eat at the neighbor’s house. And she knows to expect dinner guests when food is scarce next door.

Sometimes, Nelly gets to eat two meals a day. But during times of drought, like right now, one meal is all they can manage. By walking in Nelly’s footsteps, we’re able experience what it is like to live as a child experiencing chronic hunger.

World Vision’s HungerFree is a movement that focuses on empowerment, young people, community, and food. The movement works with families like Nelly’s to make sure they have the immediate food they need for today and the skills and tools to have food for a lifetime. That way families like Nelly’s can develop the resilience they need to have food during both drought and abundance.

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