This is what severe malnutrition looks like...Jon Warren WV Photographer

It's not something you want to look at, especially if you are the mother. Layla Mohamed is only 23. I met her on my last morning in Somalia, on a quick trip to the IDP camp near the World Vision office in Garowe before I dashed off to catch a series of flights back to Nairobi. Staff had taken me to the camp to check one last time on the condition of Khaleed, the very ill 6 yr-old boy I had met my first day. I was concerned about him. They had given him ORS and Plumpy Nut, and he was sitting up on his own now. What a relief! He was surviving!

Then Layla came up to us with her 1 year-old baby, Zam Zam, hoping we could do something to help. She looked bewildered about what was happening to her baby -- desperate. She already has 5 kids. Staff tell me she may have married as early as 10 or 12. Layla fled the Mogadishu conflict with her husband and children, but now finds herself fighting to save her baby. World Vision staff gave her Plumpy Nut to feed him and urged her to take him immediately to the camp center for malnourished children. They reminded her not to neglect regular breast feeding. Layla replied, "I don't sleep enough because I am so worried. I wake up in the night and give drink to the baby."

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