
Malnutrition
Malnutrition affects children like Pedro (left) and Teresa from Angola. They were diagnosed at a World Vision health screening and are eating enriched food called Plumpy Nut to aid their recovery.
No child should go hungry or be sick. Every child deserves a good start in life.
Every day children are dying before they have a chance to live. Millions die annually from preventable causes. It’s a lottery of malnutrition, infections they weren’t immunised against, and illnesses that could be easily treated with the right health care. It can so easily be different.
World Vision focuses on three essential ways to improve health – especially for 0-5 year olds: good nutrition, protection from infection and disease, and access to essential health services.
Together, we can protect children’s health and well-being, so they can grow up healthy and safe, even in the toughest places.
Good health empowers children, families, and communities. We enable vulnerable people to live fuller, freer lives by strengthening health systems and promoting good hygiene and nutrition.
You can be part of World Vision’s lifesaving work:
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In a world where 1 in 9 people don’t have enough food to eat, you can help make sure children have access to nutritious food.