|© UNICEF Lesotho/2012| |Mohlakoana Primary School, Quthing,
Lesotho. For most of these children, the two meals they receive
as part of a school feeding programme is often the only food
they receive in a day.| By Suzanne Beukes VAN ROOI, Lesotho, 28
November 2012 – Since losing her two daughters to HIV/AIDS –
“this disease which is affecting everyone,” she says – 75-year-
old Puseletso Tsiu has been forced to eke out a living for
herself and her three orphaned grandchildren by doing piecework.
Tears stream from her eyes as she describes how much more
difficult putting food on the table has become for her since
food crisis gripped the small, landlocked, mountainous country
of Lesotho. In desperate times, stretching slim resources In
Lesotho, the effects of two consecutive years of floods and
heavy rains followed by a drought have been amplified by rising
food prices, especially for staple foods such as maize. Families
like Ms. Tsiu’s, already struggling to make ends meet, have
fallen on even harder times. The g