Thursday, July 01, 2010

Hunger Up Close

There are tons of facts and figures you can find on hunger and malnutrition. Facts like...

76% of Haiti's children under 5 years of age are underweight or suffer from wasting or stunted growth, and...

every 6 seconds a child somewhere in the world dies from a malnutrition-related disease, and...

2.4 million people in Haiti are "food insecure" (don't have enough access to food), and...

one out of every three babies born in Haiti are born underweight.

Holding this little boy this morning made me forget those numbers. For a few moments, it was just me and him.

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