With winter approaching, millions of children around the world are desperately in need of food that will save them from damaging malnutrition or even death.
Josette Sheeran of the World Food Programme (WFP) said last year, "We now know that the effects of under-nutrition are irreversible if a child under two years-old does not receive enough nutritious food. This makes it nearly criminal for the entire world not to act together to counter it."
Yet the response from the international community is never enough to meet the great challenge of child hunger. The UN World Food Programme, UNICEF and other aid agencies are short on funding for their hunger relief operations.
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