Over the weekend, her condition grew worse. When we spoke over the phone on Monday, she spoke slowly with an audibly heavy tongue. She said that she had only been able to eat a few spoonfuls of beans and a small piece of bread. From the little that she and her brother still had, she said, they were giving almost all of it to the children. She said that she spends her days crying – and drinking lots of water so that there is at least something in her stomach.