With food an impossibly scarce commodity in drought-stricken Somalia, Fatuma Abdille faces a harrowing choice every day: Which of her seven children will get to eat?

If theres a very small amount of food, we give it to those who need it the most the youngest, Abdille told Reuters this week from the capital Mogadishu, where her family recently fled after their herd of goats died from starvation.

Abdilles 9-year-old son has been giving up his share of food so his younger siblings wont suffer. He is making a sacrifice, his mother said with sadness.