Children wasting away as hunger hits 200,000 in Madagascar

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FILE PHOTO: Katy Perry demonstrating to children how to wash their hands at the Sahavola pre-school in Madagascar

FILE PHOTO: Katy Perry demonstrating to children how to wash their hands at the Sahavola pre-school in Madagascar

Clutching a small bag of corn in one hand, six-year-old Haova Toboha scratches the ground with the other in hopes of turning up stray kernels left from a UN food handout.

“I found these and I’ll add them to the corn given to my parents” by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said the little girl with the plastic bag in the village of Berano, southern Madagascar.

In villages across the southern part of the world’s fourth biggest island, a months-long drought ravaged last season’s …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper