World Food Day 2015

TODAY IS World Food Day and we've put together this series of images to highlight the issues caused by hunger and poverty. Please share on social media with #WorldFoodDay to help the fight against hunger and poverty.

Not consuming foods with the right nutrients and vitamins as an infant and/or toddler will irreversibly damage many children’s future chance of growing properly, living a healthy life, and raising a healthy family of their own.

Millions of children across Asia are having their futures decided for them by the food they eat.

 

 

Baby Anoi weighs 4.3kg, which is where he should be at twenty-five days old. Low-birth weight is one of the many factors, that can impact Anoi’s growth and development forever.

Photo by Albert Yu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following Typhoon Haiyan, World Vision’s Women and Young Children Spaces (WAYCS) were established to provide mothers with breastfeeding support to ensure malnutrition would not be a subsequent effect of the disaster. A mother’s breast milk is rich with nutrients for her baby. Breastfeeding provides total food security, with high nutritional value, for baby optimizing a child’s physical and mental growth and development.

Photo by Annila Harris

 

 

Kiew, age 3, Laos. Kiew lives with his grandfather who has learned new skills for growing their home garden. “Thank you, World Vision, to help our family have nutritious food.”

 

Photo by Ammala Thomisith

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marjan, who is 25 months old, is malnourished weighing only 6 kilos. In Afghanistan, more than half of all children under age five are chronically malnourished.

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At eighteen months, each time baby Rita was hungry she was fed a watery starch from a dirty bowl. Her meals were not only without nutrition but they also lacked hygiene. As a result, she suffered from frequent diarrhoea and marasmus – a gradual wasting-away of the body due to severe malnutrition.

Photo by Alina Shrestha

 

 

 

 

Shimanto, 2 years and 10 months, used to be severely underweight for his age. His mother, Lipi, was unaware about child nutrition and nutritious foods to feed her son. She would give him the same food as the other elder members of the family. A porridge program helped to teach Lipi how to care for her son and ensure he consumes the right nutrients. Today he is healthy.

Photo by Gloria Das

 

 

Turbayar (age 4, boy) was malnourished and often sick at the beginning of his life. His grandmother who looks after him did not know what to do. After learning child care and nutrition, she began to help her grandson regain his health.

Photo by Enkhbayar Purevjav

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vorn is 3 years old. He is malnourished because his family lacks the money to buy enough food. The family struggles to meet many of their most basic needs: food, clean water, sanitation, clothes, education, and medicine.

 

Photo by Jerry Galea

 

 

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this story. Don't forget to share on your social media pages with #WorldFoodDay and remember that sponsoring a child with World Vision is one of the best ways you can help the fight against poverty. 

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