This excerpt is from an article published on September 22, 2009 by The HuffingtonPost, and written by Josette Sheeran. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
The perfect storm for the world’s most vulnerable is back — and with a vengeance. Now bad weather and soaring food prices have been joined by a financial crisis sucking the economic life out of poor communities — and urgent hunger is the result….
…In Guatemala, children have already started dying. In rural areas, tens of thousands of families can no longer afford to eat. Malnutrition rates are rising among the very young, and poverty has become a killer. The president just made a plea for help, calling it a national calamity.
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