Haiti’s Children Are Starving: Inside the Malnutrition Crisis
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According to UNICEF, 1 in 4 children in Haiti suffers from chronic malnutrition, which is also the leading cause of death for children under 5 years old.
Wildlande Lindlande is a single mother of two who lives in a refugee camp in Port Au Prince. “We need help, we don’t have anything to eat,” she says. Over a thousand families live in the same camp, and there is not enough drinking water or food for all of them.
Correspondent Jason Motlagh deployed to the Caribbean nation to explain why hunger and poor living conditions are rapidly spreading.
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