A recent study conducted by Save the Children, an international child rights organisation, revealed that about 17 million children are expected to be born into conditions of hunger by the conclusion of 2023.JAMB Result
Save the Children said that this is equivalent to around 33 children every minute and represents a 22 per cent increase from the figures recorded a decade ago.JAMB Portal
The group disclosed this in a press statement obtained by our correspondent on Monday.
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Save the Children, in the statement, noted that about one-fifth more newborns would face hunger in 2023 compared to 2013, when 14.4 million children were born into the grips of hunger, adding that its data was based on the prevalence of undernourishment from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) and UN estimates on the number of births.informationguidenigeria
“More than 17 million newborns will this year enter a world where hunger will eat away at their childhood.NYSC PORTAL
Hunger will destroy their dreams, silence their play, disrupt their education, and threaten their lives,” said Vishna Shah-Little, Regional Director for Advocacy, Campaigns, Communications and Media for Save the Children in West and Central Africa.
“The future of these children is already compromised before they even take their first breath. We must protect their childhoods and futures before it’s too late,” Save the Children statement partly read.
The group, at the global food security summit in the UK on Monday, addressed the root causes of acute food and nutrition insecurity, adding that “only by putting an end to global conflict, tackling the climate crisis and global inequality, and building more resilient health, nutrition, and social protection systems that are less vulnerable to shocks like COVID-19, conflicts, and the climate crisis will we be able to ensure the same warnings are not ringing out again in the coming years.”
The Child Right organisation also called for greater collaboration, dialogue, and investment across sectors with, and leadership by, local communities to bolster response planning and implementation, as well as our abilities to act early and prevent predictable shocks from turning into crises.
“Save the Children is also calling on world leaders to scale up low-cost interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition: community-based treatment for acute malnutrition, supporting and protecting breastfeeding, and investing in the community and primary-level healthcare,” the organisation added.
The child rights organisation adduced economic instability, conflicts, and repeated climate shocks as causes that contributed to the devastating hunger crisis that is affecting every corner of the world.
Based on the analysis, Africa and Asia account for 95 per cent of the world’s undernourished births in 2023, adding that the data does not include the impact the escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory is having on hunger or the birth rate in the region.
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