doctorswithoutborders: Poverty, lack of access to food and healthcare, underpin malnutrition in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. And the war, often referred to as “The Forgotten War”, makes the situation only that much worse. In the Starved for Attention film “The Malnutrition That Shouldn’t Be,” photojournalist Franco Pagetti reveals the daily struggle to survive in North Kivu’s forbidding bush and teeming, fetid displaced persons camps, where food is scarce and the people are on edge, ready to run at a moment’s notice. This is one of 195 million stories of malnutrition. Sign the petition to help us rewrite the story. Photo: Democratic Republic of Congo 2009 © Franco Pagetti/VII Click for high-res photo

doctorswithoutborders:

Poverty, lack of access to food and healthcare, underpin malnutrition
in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. And the war, often referred to as “The Forgotten War”, makes the situation only that much worse. In the Starved for Attention film “The Malnutrition That Shouldn’t Be,” photojournalist Franco Pagetti reveals the daily struggle to survive in North Kivu’s forbidding bush and teeming, fetid displaced persons camps, where food is scarce and the people are on edge, ready to run at a moment’s notice.

This is one of 195 million stories of malnutrition. Sign the petition to help us rewrite the story.

Photo: Democratic Republic of Congo 2009 © Franco Pagetti/VII

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