The following excerpt is from a December 23, 2009 article published by Reuters AlertNet. To view the article in its entirety, please click here.
Source: Action Against Hunger – USA
CHIQUIMULA, GUATEMALA Surveys carried out by Action Against Hunger / ACF International along the Guatemalan border with Honduras show widespread food insecurity and high levels of malnutrition in a region buffeted by the global recession and poor rainfalls. The global humanitarian group has intervened on an emergency and long-term basis, treating children with severe acute malnutrition and implementing nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation programs in the area.
The global humanitarian group announced today that 7.7 percent of children in the Corredor Seco region of Guatemala are acutely malnourished; another 2.4 percent have severe acute malnutrition, the more life-threatening form of the condition…
Click here to read the rest of this article, or here to read more about the 2009/2010 food crisis.
Recent Comments