00:00We are traveling to Gamburungala, an area in northeast Nigeria, where Islamist jihadist group Boko Haram is still very active.
00:08Fatal fields have been left untended as residents were forced to flee following years of attacks by criminal gangs.
00:16Many of them now live in displacement camps and depended on food aid which has now stopped due to responding cuts.
00:23Air travel is the only safest way of reaching the camps as armed criminals have made the roads to dangerous.
00:30This camp is the largest in Gamburungala.
00:35The refugees here are struggling to provide for their families.
00:38Travel beyond the camp borders is not safe as armed militants surround the perimeter.
00:45Kore Garba just rushed her youngest son, three-year-old Jime, to the stabilization center.
00:50There, he was diagnosed with severe malnutrition and other health complications.
00:56My son had a fever and refused to eat, so I took him to a chemist to buy drugs, but I had to rush him to the clinic when his condition got worse.
01:05My husband and I don't work, we live on food aid, but what we get is not enough to feed our family.
01:10The United Nations says this year, at least one million children face severe acute malnutrition here in Boronu and two neighboring states.
01:20Stabilization centers like this have been set up to treat severe malnutrition, but it is the only one serving the entire area.
01:28A second center was closed due to lack of funding, putting pressure on the remaining workers.
01:34Besides the funding cuts, the UN says the lane season, a period when food is most scarce, has also contributed to the hunger crisis.
01:45Residents in this camp gather daily at this storage center, hoping to get more food, but there is just not enough to go around.
01:53This is all Kautuma receives to feed her eight children.
01:59She says it is just enough for two days, and she is not sure of how much, if any, food she will get in September.
02:06I depend totally on the food intervention we get here in camp, because I don't have any means of income.
02:12Once I exhaust my food and the food support we get stops, I will be forced to take my children to the host communities and start begging for alms.
02:23The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, says they received just a third of their expected funding for this year, and don't expect more to come.
02:33Trond Jensen, the head of office in Nigeria, wants the situation in the camps could get worse.
02:40What we are extremely concerned about is the fate, then, of children under five who are severely, acutely malnourished.
02:48That's a life-threatening condition, and if they don't get medical assistance, we are at risk of 420,000 children dying in Nigeria.
03:01The vulnerable here are already feeling the impact of the recent funding cuts.
03:06Unless more money comes in, their situation could get a lot worse.
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