malnutrition
Sep 20 2010, Javed

Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly bulging beneath a green flowered shirt.

Their newborn sister already died on the ground.

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Alison Rivera, 6, who suffers from malnutrition, is carried by her mother’s friend, Dina Rosales at ‘La Mascota’ children’s hospital in Managua, Friday, April 25, 2008. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) informed that due to the rising prices of...