This fall, MSF-USA traveled to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, to stage “Starved for Attention,” a free interactive exhibit designed to raise awareness about the global crisis of childhood malnutrition.
Despite some recent gains in the fight against childhood malnutrition, the global food aid system largely continues to provide substandard foods to millions of malnourished children.
“Starved for Attention” aims to rewrite the story of malnutrition through a series of multimedia documentaries that seamlessly blend photography and video from some of the most accomplished and award-winning photojournalists working today. This slideshow gives you a sample of the striking images they captured.
In this issue of Alert, we focus on the neglected crisis of childhood malnutrition. Last year alone, MSF treated more than a quarter of a million malnourished children in 34 countries.
Every six seconds worldwide, a child dies from malnutrition. Despite this alarming fact, childhood malnutrition remains under-documented and fundamentally misunderstood, reports Doctors Without Borders. To draw attention to the crisis, they called upon experienced photojournalists to visit seven countries, from war zones to impoverished regions to emerging economies, to create the multimedia series “Starved for Attention.”
The picture of starvation in Africa is one we think we know. “We tend to think of it as a lonely child in the middle of nowhere with a vulture hanging over her,” Marcus Bleasdale said. “It’s not like that at all. There is a very concerned family. Hundreds of doctors go into making these children well again.”
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