The ADE family: From Polataka to Kisubi

In February 1992, during a humanitarian mission in Southern Sudan for the European Association for Studies on Nutrition and Child Development (ADE), the authors "discovered" thousands of young boys, abandoned in the Polataka camp. The course of their lives since birth dictated by the armed conflicts which had shaken the Southern Sudan, and decimated by hunger and disease, these young boys lived in conditions of absolute poverty. To alleviate the emergency, ADE was launching a medical action...