Plumpy Nut

World Vision's nutrition programs and the miraculous product Plumpy'nut® have a life-changing impact on Sabiou, a severely malnourished boy in Niger.

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Hunger in America 2010: Hunger Study Statistics | Feeding America Famine in East Africa: How you can help

Twelve million people are facing a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, and they are in desperate need of help.The United Nations declared a famine in parts of southern Somalia, calling for a widespread international response to end the suffering.Thousands of Somalis have been fleeing the country each week in search of food, water and shelter -- many of them walking for days in the sweltering sun toward refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Nearly half a million children are at risk of dying from malnutrition and disease.
Relief organizations are calling on the international community to join together to end the crisis, and they're working to gain entrance into areas with limited humanitarian access.
Feeding America reports that more than 37 million people, one in eight Americans -- including 14 million children and nearly 3 million seniors -- receive ... There are ways you can help.Save the Children is feeding underweight children, providing life-saving medical treatment, and getting clean water to remote communities in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Partners in the fight against malnutrition

Today, after measuring Jennyca’s progress, FONDEFH nurse Mirlene Duplessy sends Ms. Pierre home with a week’s supply of Plumpy’nut, a therapeutic food. She will have to bring Jennyca back to the tent every weekend for seven weeks. After that, barring any complications, Jennyca’s health should be restored. Over the last five years, the combined Dutch efforts to fight malnutrition have led to gradually decreasing malnutrition prevalence rates in all health care settings ...

Jennyca’s story

Andremene Pierre carries water to her family’s tent, meandering around grounded helicopters and clothes lines strung up between the wings of airplanes and shelters.Finally, she arrives at the tent she shares with her mother, step-father, 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old niece, Jennyca. Jennyca has been a source of worry for their entire family.

child malnutrition in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 7 March 2012 – After the January 2010 earthquake destroyed homes and infrastructure in Port-au-Prince, a number of displaced families moved to an old private airstrip in the Carrefour neighbourhood, setting up tents between old planes and helicopters.On January 12th 2010 a massive earthquake struck Haiti. Millions of lives were affected and a country was left in ruins. UNDP's cash for work program is putting ...

Flash Floods Devestate the Philippines

Save the Children is responding to Typhoon Washi (Tropical Storm Sedong) and flash flooding that has killed hundreds on Mindanao Island the southern Philippines. The two hardest hit cities were Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City.