In the heart of Zimbabwe, a family is suffering a slow death. Their house is quiet. The children who would normally be laughing and playing rambunctiously can barely move their sore, stiff joints. The family’s skin is dry, cracked, and covered in sores. The mother’s...
My nephew’s favorite food is bananas. Usually when he wakes up in the morning, it’s the first word out of his mouth: “Nana!” He knows his breakfast is waiting for him downstairs. But if you were to ask one of the countless children in developing countries what their...
Can you see them — the thousands of children starving around the world today? Can you imagine the little girl in East Africa, sitting on the dusty ground … belly swollen from months without a proper meal? Or the mother in Yemen, staring at scraps of food, knowing...
Swollen, protruding bellies. Thinning, brittle hair. Knobby knees and alarmingly thin limbs. No parent would ever want their child to be described this way. But for children around the world who are starving, the physical effects of malnutrition are all too real....
May 2020. Where will you be in three years? For thousands of starving children around the world, the answer is an early grave. One in nine children living in sub-Saharan Africa will die before his or her fifth birthday … most from hunger. As famine sweeps across...