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Starved for Attention

14 October 2011
Starved for Attention
Starved for Attention
In the Starved for Attention film “Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?” photojournalist Lynsey Addario documents the food crisis in Somalia and northeastern Kenya. All children have the same nutritional needs to grow and thrive. It shouldn’t take a war or famine to occur before vulnerable children have access to a healthy diet. http://www.starvedforattention.org/ Somali refugees wait in Liboi, right across the Kenyan border, to be relocated to Dagahaley camp by the IOM, August 20, 2011. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, is the largest refugee camps in the world. The horn of Africa is suffering one of the worst droughts in years, displacing thousands, and killing others through severe...
14 October 2011
malnutrition, bangladesh
While Young Victims of War and Famine Are Able to Access Latest Lifesaving, Nutritious Foods, Millions More Malnourished Children Still Receive Poor Quality Food Aid   Childhood Malnutrition - What's Happening Now Download Briefing Paper Johannesburg – Despite some recent gains in the fight against childhood malnutrition, the global food aid system largely continues to provide substandard foods to millions of malnourished children every year, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced today, in advance of World Food Day on October 16.   Malnutrition—a preventable and treatable condition...
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