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Good nutrition critical to child health and development, UNICEF
February 1, 2010 | |
UNICEF Marks World Food Date As Trucks and Choppers Carry Comestibles Aid for Children to Reserved Pakistan -
UNICEF Executive Pilot Ann M. Veneman marked World Food Light of day by racket for increased focal point on mother and baby nutrition as the backbone of a healthy start in life. She said ensuring that women and children are seep-nourished is essential to dollop reach the Millennium Condition Goals, because sound nutrition is central to salubriousness, learning, and well-being.
“Malnutrition takes a devastating toll on children,” Veneman said. “Some 10.6 million children lay down one’s life before the time eon of five every year, half of them due to causes related to malnutrition.”
Some 300 million children worldwide are malnourished and 27 per cent of all children under five are underweight someone is concerned their maturity. More than 60,000 women per year will not survive pregnancy because of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and an estimated 18 million babies will be born mentally impaired.
“Investing in good nutrition in regard to women and children would be a tremendous spur to global condition,” Veneman said. “Good nutrition, exceptionally in the first not too years of a child’s autobiography, offers big returns in well-being, education and productivity.”
Safeguarding children’s nutrition is especially respected in emergency situations, Veneman distinguished, because children weakened by awful nutrition are more vulnerable to the types of illnesses that spread quickly among displaced populations.
Disasters in countries where children are already living on or tight-fisted the brink of malnutrition can fast threaten child survival, she said. This scenario is a bother in Pakistan, where children in the hardest hit communities have gone days without proper food, water, shelter, or health care.
UNICEF announced that it purpose have five flights loaded with principal-protein biscuits for children jetty in Pakistan over the weekend.
Since its inception in 1946, UNICEF has been working with governments, partners and communities to help nourish millions of children, time by day and for a lifetime. Devoting more than half its budget to at cock crow childhood, UNICEF programmes feed underweight children, provide essential micronutrient supplements, encourage warm and newborn robustness, stay exclusive breastfeeding, offer infant-feeding counselling and advocate with governments to guard children’s uprightness right side to beneficial nutrition. During emergencies UNICEF is ever after one of the sooner on the ground to fitting the nutritional needs of children, saving lives and speeding recovery.
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