Congo: The Malnutrition That Shouldn't Be

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In a somber, yet bold, reportage, photographer Franco Pagetti reveals the daily struggle to survive in North Kivus forbidding bush and teeming, fetid displaced persons camps, where food is scarce and the people are on edge, ready to run at a moments notice.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and VII Photo present Starved for Attention, a multimedia campaign to uncover the hidden crisis of childhood malnutrition. Watch 7 of the 195 million stories of malnutrition from prolific and award-winning photojournalists.

Sign the "Starved for Attention" online petition and be part of the campaign to rewrite the story of malnutrition and demand that the 195 million malnourished children get the attention they need and deserve to escape the deadly cycle of malnutrition.

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Photos: DRC 2009 © Franco Pagetti

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[iampeeay01]

is there any institution that is helping countries that has a high level of malnutrition?

[GrabTheBerry]

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[Iammaggiek]

Who supplies the arms to these armies and militia and how can we stop it? I have no doubt that the west has a hand in it as they want the minerals from the land.