Every year, poor nutrition claims the lives of more than 2.4 million children. That’s more than one in three of all child deaths. It’s time to give this issue the attention it deserves.
Ask our world leaders to end chronic malnutrition for 25 million kids.
We can make food aid more sustainable not by giving away Western food, but by working with local farmers and creating a market for their crops in the region. ONE Agriculture Fellow Roger Thurow reports. Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another
This piece, by 1,000 Days Executive Director Lucy Martinez Sullivan, was originally posted on Future Fortified’s blog. In my job as the executive director of 1,000 Days, I am an advocate for mothers and children around the world. But it wasn’t until I learned I was pregnant last year and then finally welcomed my first
Kids really, really need to start life with vitamin-rich foods if they want to grow up to be healthy, strong and productive adults. Roger Thurow shares the story of Harriet and her son Abraham. This post was originally published on The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting’s website. A mother knows. “This child is brilliant,” Harriet Okaka says
We know that investing in agriculture is one of the best ways to fight poverty. Proven nutrition solutions – like healthy foods for infants – are praised as some of the “best buys” in development. Now we just need to put them into practice – and fight to save one million lives each year.
Ask our world leaders to end chronic malnutrition for 25 million kids.