Posted on 16 October, 2010
Cooking habits can help fight malnutrition - Bangladesh
As seen in the Starved for Attention film Terrifying Normalcy, Bangladesh is one of the world’s malnutrition hotspots.
To help prevent children becoming malnourished, MSF staff give cooking classes in people’s homes, teaching mothers about the importance of food hygiene and nutrition. During these sessions, women learn new ways of preparing khichuri—a local dish containing rice, lentils and vegetables—so that nutrients are not lost in the cooking process.
At the moment, the U.S. provides half of the world’s food aid, but the quality of this food aid doesn’t meet the nutritional requirements of children under 2 years of age. So aid is wasted as it doesn’t prevent nor treat malnutrition.
Sophie Delaunay, MSF Executive Director
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Interview with Jessica Dimmock - Starved for Attention Photojournalist
This video combines an interview with photojournalist Jessica Dimmock and some of her photos from Burkina Faso for the Starved for Attention project.
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Reuters AlertNet - Top donors accused of sending ‘substandard’ food to poor
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) “said the world’s biggest donors of food aid — including the U.S., Canada, Japan and the European Union — continued to supply and fund nutritionally ‘substandard’ food to developing countries, despite scientific evidence showing it was of little value in reducing child malnutrition.”
Lovely.
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Interview with Photojournalist Franco Pagetti
VII photojournalist Franco Pagetti traveled to North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, to capture images for “The Malnutrition That Shouldn’t Be”.
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Congo: The Malnutrition That Shouldn’t Be
In a somber, yet bold, reportage, photographer Franco Pagetti reveals the daily struggle to survive in North Kivus forbidding bush and teeming, fetid displaced persons camps, where food is scarce and the people are on edge, ready to run at a moments notice.
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Interview with John Stanmeyer - Starved for Attention Photojournalist
VII photographer John Stanmeyer traveled to rural areas of Oaxaca State in Mexico to shoot “A Solution from Within”, which documents the area’s successful Progresa/Oportunidades nutrition safety net program for the Starved for Attention project.
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India: Invisible
Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair turned her lens on an MSF program in Bihar State which treats children at the epicenter of one of the world’s malnutrition hotspots. These children descend from generations of a chronically under-nourished population, making malnutrition more difficult for MSF workers to spot. Malnutrition in India is so pervasive it is almost invisible.
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