Heartbreaking pictures show 'malnutrition epidemic' facing Afghanistan's children
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The little girl in the bed could have been a four-year-old in any country. She wore a pink top with sparkles, pink trousers, and her tiny fingers and toes were painted in a glittery red polish. But Yalda is in Afghanistan, and her body is so weak it can no longer support the weight of her head. Even raising her skeletally thin arm to scratch her face seemed an impossible effort. She was conscious but not really alert, yet there was no doubt about the pain she was in. By her side, her mother, unable to ease her child’s pain or summon any hope for her future. Her daughter is one of the more than one million children in Afghanistan at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The hospital doesn’t have the medication she needs to treat her and her family are out of money to buy it. They sold their only cow when she became ill. That money is almost gone now. They are out of options and their daughter is running out of time. It is of no comfort that the family are surrounded by dozens of
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