Photos by Djibril Sy/FAO

THE STORY OF ANDREA SEMEDO DA VEIGA

My life in Cape Verde

As part of a series of photo journals on how the TeleFood programme helps needy families, a resident of Cape Verde, an island nation off the West African coast, talks about her daily life.

My name is Andrea Celeciana Semedo Da Veiga. I am 11 years old and this is my grandmother, Maria Tavares. She is not sure exactly how old she is, but she is probably in her late seventies. Grandmother is asthmatic and very frail. She has just come back from a week in hospital. My sister Ruth and I look after her.

We live up in the hills near the village of São Jorge on the island of Santiago, where I go to primary school.

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