The Shortlist of the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2017
Unconditional love
Hospital - Beira Central Hospital where acutely malnourished children are treated in the malnutrition clinic. In Mozambique approximately 6% of children under 5 years are chronically malnourished - about 250,000 in total. The causes are HIV, diseases such as malaria, pneumonia or lack of food related to poverty. Treatment of acute malnutrition takes approximately 20 days. The Central Hospital in the city of Beira is the only hospital for four districts. Parents or grandparents are with the children night and day. I got to know them a little better when I visited the clinic. What I saw was unconditional love and this is how I wanted to portray them.
Photos by Chris De Bode
Hospital - Beira Central Hospital where acutely malnourished children are treated in the malnutrition clinic. In Mozambique approximately 6% of children under 5 years are chronically malnourished - about 250,000 in total. The causes are HIV, diseases such as malaria, pneumonia or lack of food related to poverty. Treatment of acute malnutrition takes approximately 20 days. The Central Hospital in the city of Beira is the only hospital for four districts. Parents or grandparents are with the children night and day. I got to know them a little better when I visited the clinic. What I saw was unconditional love and this is how I wanted to portray them.
Photos by Chris De Bode
