For The Childrens's Sake

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2012 · People & Blogs

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This video contains disturbing images. Afghanistan's hospitals bear the evidence of the country's malnutrition crisis. This crisis that is now at emergency levels, is killing 30,000 children every year. Drought and poverty are at its root. ITV News' Emma Murphy reports.

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Childhood has never been easy in Afghanistan. The ongoing conflict, drought and poverty are having profound effects on a generation, leaving many families struggling to feed their children. ITN's Emma Murphy met mothers in Mazar-e-Sharif where they're being taught how to prevent malnutrition.

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