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Mukta holding 9-month-old daughter Abdi

Unicef estimates that its cost to prevent severe acute malnutrition is $55 a year per child, or just 15 cents per day.

A pack of Plumpy’Nut, a high protein, high energy food for severely malnourished children, costs 38 cents. Two or three packs a day can revive a child.

UNICEF: https://www.unicefusa.org/?utm_content=corona3responsive_none&ms=cpc_dig_2020_Emergencies_20200402_google_corona3responsive_delve_none&initialms=cpc_dig_2020_Emergencies_20200402_google_corona3responsive_delve_none&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlKmeBhCkARIsAHy7WVv43uVPNl0eCVpRk88vK4f7EVJLkXhP_tlYDNJHzFrpArkRcj2V7VwaAkt6EALw_wcB

Somalia is a stark land of austere beauty, with farmers and goat-herders eking out a living from desert moonscapes. The country normally has two rainy seasons a year, but these have failed for two and a half years, shriveling crops and leaving carcasses of goats and cattle on the parched brown earth. Families are on the move, setting up colorful homemade tents and seeking work to earn cash to feed starving children.

This may be, in part, on us: The worst drought in four decades is widely believed to be linked to climate change. The implication is that carbon emissions from wealthy countries are killing Somali children, tethering us to this crisis by a thread of moral responsibility.

What’s needed in Somalia isn’t just aid, however, but also peace. An extremist Islamic group, Al Shabab, is battling the government, and the combination of war and drought has driven some 3.8 million Somalis from their homes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/famine-africa-drought-hunger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare