Its teams have treated about 1, 000 malnourished children since then and delivered about 200 babies.
Extra money for meals at school has helped malnourished children concentrate on their studies.
The U.N. is transporting therapeutic milk by helicopter to Kanya and Kanyabayonga to feed hundreds of malnourished children.
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Film footage taken during the trip shows large numbers of clearly malnourished children, their growth stunted by lack of food.
Built a residential treatment facility (The Center of Hope) for village women in high risk pregnancy (50 beds), and for severely malnourished children (25 beds).
Malnourished children grow up with worse health and lower educational achievements.
International groups like the World Health Organizations and UNICEF have been on the forefront of public health work that focuses on treating severely malnourished children during this critical time.
Neil Buhne, the organisation's humanitarian co-ordinator in Sri Lanka, said after a visit to camps for displaced civilians that he had seen infants with dysentery, malnourished children and women with untended wounds.
Plans to visit another hospital that is trying to treat the most severely malnourished children was called off for security reasons, but I'd urge you to read a colleague's description of it.
According to research published in The Lancet, a medical journal, malnourished children are less likely (all things being equal) to go to school, less likely to stay there, and more likely to struggle academically.
Formal sector employment stagnated, real wages for most workers actually fell, nearly 200, 000 farmers committed suicide in the period of 1995-2006 alone, and there was an increase in the millions of hungry people and malnourished children.
When they finally arrived, five or six malnourished children came out to greet them, along with a woman wearing a very wide skirt that bulged voluminously, as if there were some kind of animal under it coiled around her legs.
The company must cover all costs and make profit, at the same time achieve the social objective, such as, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor, financial services for the poor, nutrition for malnourished children, providing safe drinking water, introducing renewable energy, etc. in a business way.
After all, they were thrilled to see us we were there with the ORPHANetwork, a Virginia-based NGO devoted to serving malnourished and displaced children in Nicaragua.
On top of that, a quarter of these women's children are malnourished, the same number as in June.
The U.N. recently estimated that as much as 80% of North Korean children are malnourished.
About half of all Zambian children are malnourished to the point of being stunted, a fifth severely so.
Astonishingly, a third of the wealthiest 20% of Indian children are malnourished, too, and they are neither poor nor excluded.
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The World Food Programme says North Korea continues "to face regular, significant food shortages, " with one in every three children chronically malnourished or too short for their age.
These were people already relying on food aid so there is a certainly a case that some of the children are already malnourished.
Now the government has appealed to the United Nations for emergency aid, in a country where one in three children is chronically malnourished or stunted.
The situation is particularly precarious for an estimated 325, 000 children who are acutely malnourished, the UN said.
Half the children under five are malnourished, their physical and mental development stymied.
She also warned that unless hospitals got urgent help, more children would became dangerously malnourished, putting more pressure on the hospitals.
She writes about being present for a vaccination campaign where, because children were dehydrated and malnourished, vaccines were not generating the expected immune response.
Or 46% children under five remain malnourished?
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UN's children's agency believes a third of all children under five are chronically malnourished: a rise of 72% over 1991.
She said children are at highest risk of becoming quickly malnourished.
One-quarter of the world's malnourished live in India, among them 40% of all Indian children under five.
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