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Friday, April 26, 2024

The Seven Things You May Not Expect in a Hunger Crisis

The Seven Things You May Not Expect in a Hunger Crisis - Most children suffering severe malnutrition will be extremely skinny, experiencing severe muscle wasting (thinning of muscle mass) and have a very low weight for their height. A starving child may lose their appetite. The astonishing generostiy of the hungriest people. The asian countries where even rice has become a luxury

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Children have a right to a clean, safe and healthy environment!

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The Life-Saving Need for Nutrition Investment

World Vision's health and nutrition chief, Dan Irvine, argues that, when it comes to ending child malnutrition, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of...

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Pray Without Ceasing: Three reasons to pray for an end to the global hunger crisis

As the world’s leaders prepare for the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Odoi Odotei writes about the importance of prayer to...

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Campaigning lessons from ending violence against children in Lebanon

Josephine explains a 360-degree campaign approach that can adapt and change is the secret to realising change for children.

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What children consider innovation will surprise you

Faith explains how child-led innovation is the key to improving the lives of children in East Asia and around the world

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Why breastfeeding is men's work too

Awurabena considers how vital it is for men to understand and support women to breastfeed.

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Why humanitarians must push for more

As the Director of World Vision's Global Hunger Response, Mary Njeri has witnessed the harrowing reality of suffering children in places like Isiolo, Kenya...

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Making breastfeeding work in a hunger crisis

For #WorldBreastFeedingWeek Colleen Emary calls for more investment to ensure women can breastfeed when food is in short supply.

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The way towards equitable food systems and enough for children

Dana Buzducea explains that her faith and a fierce passion to see the world’s children properly nourished is why she is challenging leaders in Rome....

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Deliver for women dignified access to aid

Writing during the Women Deliver conference, Eleanor Monbiot spotlights World Vision's research that shows aid, properly distributed, can empower women and...

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Changing the power dynamics: Gender-transformative social accountability

As Sarah Onduko and Abigail Howe-Will prepare for the Women Deliver 2023 conference in Kigali, Rwanda they reflect on the success of a recent project with...

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Mapping the many-headed monster threatening the world’s children

Urban programming expert Aline Rahbany spotlights a new approach to mapping and research to comprehensively measure children’s exposure to vulnerability...

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Faithful Food Systems demand focus on people and planet over profit

Andrea Kaufmann celebrates the vital role faith leaders and communities play in strengthening food systems, but laments that the global granary is still so...

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What Mongolians need most in a severe winter crisis? Communications.

Bolortsetseg Bold explains that when facing the Mongolian ‘Dzud, ’community feedback mechanisms and media information campaigns were as vital as...

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Don’t fear the teen! Let’s turn our perspective of adolescents upside down.

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World leaders at G7 can stop the hunger crisis, so children can thrive

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