Kwazup: nutritional rehabilitation in Transkei.

In the far-away homeland of Transkei there is poverty, malnutrition, and only the beginnings of economic development. But there is also a spar of hope and realism: its name is Kwazup -from kwa zondle uphile, which literally translated means "to feed yourself to be healthy." On a landscape of rondavels, mealie fields, and grazing cattle, where families struggle in the wet season to grow enough for the winter months, Kwazup talks to the people in their own tongue. No-amen, a typical mother (though the name is fictitious), is worried about her eldest child, Fikile. He is twenty-three months old. He's irritable and lethargic. He doesn't want to walk any more. His skin is peeling and his legs have become swollen. After consulting with her mother-in-law No-amen is granted permission to take Fikile to the local clinic, which is a day's journey by foot over dirt roads. For No-amen, who has never been to school, never been further from home than a day's bus ride, a long process of learning must soon begin if Fikile and any of her subsequent childrenare to survive infancy. Fikile has kwashiorkor.