More than 50 children have died in few months because of the malnutrition and famine in the East area of Guatemala known as “Dry Corridor”. The lost of the last corn and bean harvest due to drought and climate change has left more than 50.000 families in a critical situation, they live in extreme poverty conditions and they only depend on their harvest to survive.
More than 50 children have died in few months because of the malnutrition and famine in the East area of Guatemala known as “Dry Corridorâ€. The lost of the last corn and bean harvest due to drought and climate change has left more than 50.000 families in a critical situation, they live in extreme poverty conditions and they only depend on their harvest to survive.
Moreover the chronic malnutrition causes a slow development in both physical and mental skills at the first growing stages, these lacks will never be recovered so these people will become malnourished adults with a very low intellectual coefficient.
The doctors both in public organizations and NGOs check health of the more isolated native communities, they are in charge of detecting the most dangerous malnutrition cases in order to convince parents to take urgently their children to the nearest Nutritional Recuperation Centre. Some of these centres let the mothers stay in too because they are afraid of leaving their kids alone here to avoid being stolen.
According to estimates by Unicef, one million children suffer from hunger and one out of two children under the age of five suffers from chronic malnutrition in Guatemala, the highest data in all Latin America and the sixth in the world.