U.N.: Hunger Kills 18,000 Kids Each Day

February 17th, 2007 in Medicine & Health / Other
U.N.: Hunger Kills 18,000 Kids Each Day (AP)

James Morris, World Food Programme Executive Director, high-fives a boy of the Olaya Herrera district during his visit to an impoverished neighborhood in Cartagena, Colombia, in this file photo from Aug. 24, 2006. Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, the business community and governments to join forces in a global movement to alleviate and eliminate hunger, especially among children, in an interview Friday Feb. 16, 2007 (AP Photo/Ricardo Maldonado)

(AP) -- Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said.

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