Tag Archives: nutrition

HungerFree: Your guide to the G8 and G20 summits

Posted on May 4, 2012 by James Pedrick, World Vision ACT:S in Advocacy, Causes

HungerFree is a campaign to end global hunger by creatively engaging world leaders on the topic. In May and June, leaders from the world’s largest economies will meet for the G8 and G20 summits to discuss issues of global significance. James Pedrick of World Vision ACT:S, our college activism network, discusses these summits and the important role they can play in eliminating world hunger....

Uganda: Visible progress for children

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Kathryn Reid in Causes, Conversations

Uganda is one of 16 poor countries that are considered “trailblazers” for the progress they’ve made toward eliminating poverty and improving health. The nation is on track to meet at least half of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Progress is hard-won, but encouraging. Here are some accomplishments to celebrate....

Hunger in West Africa: Putting you in their shoes

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Adel Sarkozi in Disaster Relief, Stories

Health clinic for malnourished children | World Vision blog

You are in a small health clinic in southern Chad. It is 9 a.m. The air is hot, dry, and filled with cries. You are amidst 40 mothers sitting on the ground or on the clinic’s porch, babies in their laps. Under brightly colored headscarves, their faces look tired, drawn, sad. You catch glimpses of the babies. Their skin is stretched over their chests like paper over wire frames. Their legs are long and thin. Their bellies are protruding. Four of the mothers, clearly malnourished themselves but still trying to breastfeed their babies, are sitting on a wooden bench. In front of them is a row of tall, yellow roses. You have never seen so much color and sadness in...

Food for thought: Giving children the best start in the first 1,000 days

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Kathryn Reid in Causes

Giving children the best start in the first 1000 days | World Vision blog

You’ve got to respect the tenacity of a babe in arms to hold up his head, focus his eyes, and grasp a grownup’s finger. An enormous amount of mental heavy lifting is going on behind those eyes, and a lot of high-quality fuel is needed to build the muscle and brain cells at work. Mom’s milk is the perfect fuel, and it’s all that’s needed for the first six months of life. But a new report from World Vision called “The Best Start” makes clear that other simple and inexpensive measures can help ensure that millions more children get a healthy start toward a full life. Why? Because: Undernourishment is a child’s worst enemy. Around 2.5 million children die each...

World Food Day in a time of famine (Blog Action Day)

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Guest blogger in Causes

World Food Day in a time of famine | World Vision blog

World Vision New Zealand’s nutrition specialist Briony Stevens has just returned from East Africa. She blogs about her experience as part of today’s Blog Action Day, dedicated this year to discussion on the topic of food given that today is also World Food Day. * * * World Food Day seems such a bizarre concept when you’re standing in an over-crowded refugee camp in East Africa where there is a distinct lack of anything edible. When you’re measuring the circumference of a child’s upper arm as a means of determining how malnourished they are. When you watch a mother continue to clutch her baby to her, long after he or she has passed away....