“Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.” WellsChildrenFacesFemaleHunger Author:Josette Sheeran
“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsChildrenMotherDyingBabyCurrentsAccessVulnerableBreastsBellyLimbsHollowHornsFamineSwollenMatchsticksHorn Of Africa Author:Josette Sheeran
“If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.” IfsYearsFirstsChildrenDoeTwoHealthThousandDamageTwo YearsConceptionHealthcareNutritionAdequateIrreversibleTwo Year OldsWorld Health Author:Josette Sheeran
“Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.” ChildrenLosesHealthHungerAidsSecondsHealthcareHivMalariaHiv AidsTuberculosis Author:Josette Sheeran
“There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.” HumansChildrenHuman BeingsCryExpectationsFundamentalsHaunting Author:Josette Sheeran
