Malnourishment is wide spread after Malawi raised their food tax an additional 33% when most of the country already lives on less than a dollar a day.
UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, says that Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a child. One in five children do not live past the age of five. Most of those deaths are caused by curable childhood diseases and malnutrition, compounded by the security situation, which means that parents are unable to access proper health care. It is estimated that at least 30% of children from five to fourteen work to help their families survive. Many weave rugs and work at factories making bricks. “It is very difficult to put a hard and fast figure to the number of children dying from hypothermia alone on Kabul’s streets as there would undoubtedly be other reasons that would make them sick or vulnerable in the first place,” UNICEF regional communications chief Sarah Crowe wrote. No one growing up in Afghanistan has ever known what it is like to live in a country at peace. During the ten years the Soviets were in Afghanistan, they killed one million Afghans. Five million became refugees.
“Afghanistan today is without doubt the most dangerous place on earth to be born.” - Daniel Toole, UNICEF, Regional Director for South Asia
“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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