These are real people with real stories. With real tears, and real pain!
Nimani Bakhsh lost her twin girls, who were just 12 days old
Liaqat Babar, a farmer in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, sees just one escape from the hunger, loss and torment inflicted by the recent catastrophic floods. Suicide.
"When I see my kids, I feel like killing myself," he says.
"We are powerless. We just keep quiet and ask God for death."
"They are crying for food, " he says.
"I tell them God will send someone very kind, and I send them to sleep. In the morning they ask again for food, and I say again that God will send someone."
- He was motionless and skeletal - his body shrunken by starvation. Ali Nawaz was also suffering from pneumonia - contracted from sleeping under an open sky.
His grandmother Mai Sehat was keeping a vigil by his side.
"We had no transport to take him anywhere," she said, through her tears.
Basra Qurban lost her 18-month-old daughter Aasia during a chaotic food distribution. The little girl was knocked from her mother's arms and killed by her fall.
"Her back was broken on the spot," Basra said.
"When she was born we thought we would give her a good education and a good environment. That child was the most dear one
"We are dying from hunger," she said. "Our only hope is in God."
"Please come back, my children," she said, weeping at the graveside.
"You have gone to the other world my children, but please come back. Oh God, please bring them back."
