Monitoring children at risk of malnutrition Maria Mendoza opens the doors to her driveway in Punta de Mulato, Venezuela in early July. She’s preparing for a weekly growth monitoring session for children under five. Caritas volunteers who have been inspired to help during the Venezuela crisis carry chairs and tables from the Church grounds. A ...
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Scarcity of staple foods is touching every aspect of life in Venezuela. In the lead up to Easter, the Colombian Church donated 250,000 communion wafers to the Catholic Church in Venezuela.
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Reports reveal a rapidly growing public health crisis in Venezuela where 68 percent of the children show varying degrees of malnutrition and 48 percent of the selected expectant mothers are at risk of malnutrition.
Galloping inflation has reached 2,735 percent. The Venezuelan economy is crippled. Its citizens are spiraling deeper into hunger. Caritas Venezuela has stepped forward to provide medical, nutritional and spiritual care to those in need.
Water is a fundamental human right but water scarcity around the world is causing severe problems and human suffering that are likely to worsen in the future, warns Caritas Internationalis.
By Suzanna Tkalec, Humanitarian Director at Caritas Internationalis I first saw her at a Caritas Venezuela malnutrition screening of hungry mothers and hungrier children in Santa Lucia. Health workers weighed children, checked their height, measured the shrinking circumferences of their bony arms, while she sat listlessly. A whisper of a child, at 4-years old, Angelys ...
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