Betty POV
The villagers were so skinny but still so excited to see us arrive with all that food. The hope in their eyes was heart-wrenching. I followed a woman to her home, where she said the children were too far gone to walk out of the house to get food. Her home was clean and tidy, but the smell of fear and desperation almost overwhelmed me as I walked down the short passageway. I could hear the stomachs rumbling from the hungry children.
There in a room out the back of the home were four children, all pale and sunken-faced. They were definitely close to death. If we were even a day longer, they would not have been alive. The woman took the soup container and placed it on a table, and then dipped a cup into it and went to one of the children to make them drink the liquid. I grabbed a
