Juliet Jacob Ochenje
International child rights organisation, Save The Children, has said 33 children are born into hunger every minute across the globe.
This is just as it stated that 17 million children will be born into the condition by the end of 2023.
It made this known in a statement issued on Monday to mark the World Children’s Day.
The organisation revealed: “At least 17.6 million children will be born into hunger this year, or about 33 children a minute, which is a 22% jump from a decade ago.”
It further said that most of the world’s malnourished children in 2023 are from Africa and Asia, accounting for 95% of the world’s undernourished births in 2023.
“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,” it noted.
The organisation explained that “the Economic instability, conflicts and repeated climate shocks have contributed to a devastating hunger crisis that is affecting every corner of the world,” and called on “the world leaders meeting at the global food security summit in the UK today to address the root causes of acute food and nutrition insecurity.”
It also noted that it is “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.”
