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When Food Runs Short, Gogo Toti Goes Hungry so Grandchildren Can Eat
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When Food Runs Short, Gogo Toti Goes Hungry so Grandchildren Can EatOn a chilly weekday morning, gogo Thozama Toti sits next to a stove, watching her granddaughter prepare a meal of noodles.
Gogo Toti shares her home with her five adult children and six grandchildren.
Gogo Toti found employment as a domestic worker, but by 2021 at the age of 63, arthritis forced her to stop working.
Surviving with chronic medication and little food68-year old Gogo Toti (front) with her granddaughter outside her house.
Gogo Toti says she always tries to make sure she has something in her stomach before taking her arthritis medication.