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gallery shows how children, from poor communities around the world, have benefited with thanks to health programmes supported by Christian Aid
Christian Aid/Hannah Richards
Thanks to taxes raised by the 2005 re-
nationalisation of the Bolivian oil and
gas industry - supported by Christian
Aid partner CEDLA and called for by the
Bolivian people with massive
demonstrations – all school children in
Bolivia now receive a school breakfast
free of charge. Nutritional school
breakfasts have helped cut anaemia in
primary school children in La Paz from
27% to 7% in the last 3 years.
REF:
Christian Aid / Sarah Filbey
Malnourished children eat fortified
porridge at a daily feeding programme
run by Christian Aid partner, Baptist
Clinic. One in five Malawian children
under 5 is underweight, according to the
United Nations Development Programme.
REF:
Christian Aid / Sian Curry
According to the World Food Programme,
49.3% of children in Guatemala, under
the age of 5, suffer from chronic under-
nutrition. Baby Lorenza, is the youngest
patient in Bethania's specialist infant
malnutrition clinic in Guatemala. Most
of the patients at the clinic are girls,
as boys – who are often valued more -
are given extra food.
REF:
Christian Aid/Amanda Farrant
The children in Neemtalib village,
Bangladesh are much healthier since the
new Pani Parishad (water council)
installed a clean drinking water supply.
REF:
Christian Aid/Hannah Richards
Angelica is 10; she looks after her 10
month old baby sister while her parents
go to work. With help from Christian Aid’
s partner IEME she is learning about
what kinds of food she and her sister
should eat to stay healthy. Many parents
in Ica, Peru cannot afford child-care so
the responsibility falls to the older
siblings.
REF:
Christian Aid/Hannah Richards
Since Antonia started growing a variety
of nutritious vegetables in a greenhouse
provided by Christian Aid’s partner CIPE
(Bolivia), her children’s health and
concentration at school have
dramatically improved.
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[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
