One in five Colombian children suffers hunger, abuse or violence, newspaper El Tiempo reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper, NGO Save the Children said at the UN Millenium Goals…
On average 450 children die annually from malnutrition in Colombia, admitted the director of welfare agency ICBF Wednesday. The ICBF director, Rosa Maria Navarro, stated that this annual mortality rate…
Half of the children of the indigenous Embera Katio and Embera Chami communities die of hunger and lack access to adequate health care services, said indigenous leader Martin Ciagama on…
The child mortality rate in large parts of the west and north of Colombia is as high as in some parts of Africa’s most depressing regions, the country’s Health Ministry…
The Global Hunger Index says that Africa has the highest rates of malnutrition in 2009, and Colombia’s problem with hunger is “moderate.” Filed in Berlin Wednesday jointly by the World…