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Three out of every five years Eastern Guatemala is in drought. This worsens the already poverty stricken area where the Chorti Indians live. An average meal often times consists of 2 tortillas and salt. The Lord has moved on our hearts as well as our partners to begin opening feeding centers so that the children will not die or go hungry. You can see children from each feeding center above and read about them. You can also read the miraculous story about baby Guillermo. A child that was brought to our medical clinic in 2003 with severe mal-nutrition, he has now recovered and is doing well.

Every year hundreds die of mal-nutrition. Please watch this short informative video

According to this recent article from January 2009 malnutrition is still at 49.7%, higher than it was in 2008. Things are not getting better, it's time to BE THE CHANGE! Read the following excerpts from a recent article.

"Chronic malnutrition in Guatemala is the highest in Latin America, and 6th worldwide" says a study done by Unicef in January 2009.

After Haiti, Guatemala is the country with the highest index of chronic infantile malnutrition. And on a world-wide level, only Haiti, Yemen and Bangladesh surpass to Guatemala in infantile chronic malnutrition, details the report of the UN.

According to this study Guatemala has a rate of malnutrition that affects 49.7% of the children, followed by Honduras with 29%, Bolivia with 27% and Ecuador with 26%..

Chronic malnutrition affects the intellectual development of children, as it does their growth as well. Obviously it poses a great threat when confronted with any type of illness.

Index of chronic malnutrition in children is 49.3 percent.

                49.3 percent of children suffer chronic malnutrition in the country, which will cause them certain intellectual retardation. "Chronic malnutrition causes loss of neurons in the brain and is irreversible damage, caused by inadequate feeding during the first three years of life of the child" According to the Census of Low Stature of Students, 49.3 percent of children between the 6 and 7 years presently display chronic malnutrition.

          On an average more than a million children do not count on suitable feeding.

   The stats are creeping higher and higher!

For each 1000 children born, 43 die before turning a year old. We recognize that half of the children suffer from chronic malnutrition. In addition, 70 percent of the indigenous population also suffer from it, and that is worrisome.   Also, two third of the Guatemalans are too poor to feed themselves suitably.

    "Chronic Malnutrition"            Relater of the UN on feeding notifies of it's conclusions

            He points out that the more serious cases of malnutrition occur in the northeast of the country.

The report blames Kwashiorkor in the country, a disease caused by lack of proteins causes mental disturbances and distresses, depression and apathy.

The communities most devastated by the drought are Camotan and Jocotan in the Chiquimula province, near Guatemala’s eastern border with Honduras.

Hernan said. "we used to watch tv and se the African children and lament for them. Now only 3 hours by car and another 8 hours by foot we have our own scenes of misery and hunger"

The cases have increased since 2002: "the situation is serious" says Antonio González, of the Cuban Medical Brigade. There are cases of red and orange levels of mal-nutrition (the 2 gravest levels); and yellow, which is moderate but still very alarming. According to the doctor, the census conducted by the Ministry of Public Health is not a preventive measure. "It is difficult to reduce starvation. Two years ago pursuit of the weight and the stature of the smaller children of 5 years was established. Today, once again we come to register mal-nutrition incidences ", he emphasized. The symptoms: Malnutrition presents/displays some clinical signs, among them, the malnutrition marasmátic and the dominant Kwashiorkor. The symptoms are the following ones: apathy and irritability, old appearing dry skin, thin extremities, very under weight, Diminution of the muscular weave and fatty tissue, full moon face, reddish or fragile hair, muscular thinning, spots on the skin, swelling or edema in legs, swelling of stomach.

This site was last updated 02/13/10