In my recent article, "1000 days of peril in Yemen," I talked about the great threat facing the children in that embattled Middle East country. If these infants do not get proper nutrition, they suffer lasting physical and mental damage. They are scarred for life.
Tragically, this is often the case in Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East.
This week Hedinn Halldorsson of UNICEF profiles one of the physicians on the front line of the struggle to save Yemen's children. Dr. Rajia Sharhan is UNICEF's nutrition officer running therapeutic feeding centres. Families are so poor in Yemen, they are even forced to do the unthinkable.
Read the full article at Blogcritics Magazine.
