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Tearfund in Malawi
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In June AlertNet member Tearfund launched an appeal in response to the growing famine in southern Africa. Tearfund media manager Keith Ewing and photographer Marcus Perkins visited the south of Malawi and Zambia in the first two weeks of the month collecting stories and pictures from the affected areas.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Villagers collect WFP maize from Tearfund partners the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia during a distribution in the Luangwa Valley, southern Zambia. 
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Cecilia Sande and her children Chamazi, Clemis and Mazizi are resorting to eating weeds and roots to survive in the village of Chataika in southern Malawi.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
"I do not have a plan to survive...I may not be here in two months' time." Sinos Khatcha, 70, is struggling to survive in the face of Malawi's food crisis.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Leaves from the Songowa tree are cooked and eaten by hungry villagers in Chataika, southern Malawi. 
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Chief Bitilinyu of Bitilinyu Village, southern Malawi: "It pains me to see my people like this...how can a child eating roots once a day grow properly?"
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Villagers collect WFP maize from Tearfund partners the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia during a distribution in the Luangwa Valley, southern Zambia.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Cecilia Sande and her children Chamazi, Clemis and Mazizi are resorting to eating weeds and roots to survive in the village of Chataika in southern Malawi.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
"I do not have a plan to survive...I may not be here in two months' time." Sinos Khatcha, 70, is struggling to survive in the face of Malawi's food crisis.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Leaves from the Songowa tree are cooked and eaten by hungry villagers in Chataika, southern Malawi.
Photo by MARCUS PERKINS/TEARFUND
Chief Bitilinyu of Bitilinyu Village, southern Malawi: "It pains me to see my people like this...how can a child eating roots once a day grow properly?"
