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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Childhood has never been easy in Afghanistan.
The conflict, drought and poverty are having profound effects on a generation, leaving many families struggling to feed their children.
About 15 million Afghan children are malnourished, according to Save the Children, an international child welfare agency that set out to help rural Afghan communities.
“What we really need now is the political movement behind this to act to tackle hunger,” said Sarah Jacobs, a spokesman for Save the Children.
ITN’s Emma Murphy visited Afghanistan's second-largest city to learn about a new program by the agency that's making a difference, one mother at a time.
View the video to see Afghan women and relief agencies working together
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US/NATO is playing the great Game with their drfones and missiles (kids are lucky if they do not become collateral damage- now one hears that US/NATO is starving the little kids? Where is Obama adm's humanity= if US/Obama adm. is looking gor the quick exit from Afghanistan - give the hungry starving children and families FOOD NOW- and the people will remember the WWII- Roosevelt/Truman yankees who gave them food when they were starving- in Afghanistan the cruelty of letting children go hungry and starving while US/NATO stuff themselves with slave-like servants from India and Nepal in their kitchens working long hours for a so little money knowingly US.NATO allow the contractors for hired help from India and Nepal to be in bondage of paying exorbitant fees to be able to work. How can Pres.Obama with 2 children of his own allow the Afghani children to go hungry and to starve? Secr. of State Hil;lary Clinton- it takes a village (of US?NATO) to let children go hungry and starve. DoD secr.Panetta- how can you as a well-fed rotund Italian American not make sure the Afghani children don't have to go hungry and starve?
Followers and supporters of Islamic cult know only blaming others and shoving responsibilities on others.
If you people create mess including hunger, it is for you people to solve them.
Why should the US and allies help? Where does Obama come in the picture?
Let the Saudis, Kuwaiti, UAE and other rich bigoted beasts and barbarians open their purses instead of spending them on their harems?
Instead of funding the hate preaching and killer training centres, Salaffi and Wahhabi mosques all over the world, let them help the hungry, poor and helpless Muslims.
If they don't help, it is again proved that these Islamic religious Nazi beasts are only into expaning their versions of Islamic cult.
These people pushed the US and allies into Iraq wars and profited by manipulating high oil prices.
Now the same Sunni beastly and barbarians bunch are inventing problems in Iran and Syria.
The Sunni beastly and bigoted rulers are doing similar tricks to take the oil prices to sky and make monies.
Of course, for feeding those in Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, we have lectures from 180 degree turned Islamic religious Nazis and their supporters to open the purses in the US, Britain and other nations.
Either way, it was who are losers!
What a logic from those liabilities looking the world up side down!
Bible prophecy that is becoming reality because of humans who are doing evil. He foretold it and it's not a result of punishment from HIM. The earth produces enough food to feed all here. It's the actions of humans who cause this. Not blaming you or I but others who are responsible. We shouldn't blame God.
9/11 had clear Saudi, Paki and UAE hands!
But Iraq and Afghanistan became the targets.
Go to wars as directed by the Saudis, oil companies and lobbyists. Israel sets the stage in ME.
George Bush, Jr could locate Afghanistan instead of Pakistan in the map. So he attacked Afghanistan instead of Pakistan.
He mistook Iraq for Saudi Arabia. So Iraq became the target.
In this business of Iraqi wars, since 2003, future traders, rating agencies, Wall Street and oil companies and their lobbyists transferred, five trillion dollars from oil importing countries to oil exporting nations.
Oil, which was around $30 a barrel before Iraqi war business, shot up to $145.
Now stage is set again for Iran and Syria wars.
For opening the purses, again, where are the Saudis & co and rich Muslims who benefitted?
Sorry! It is again our responsibilities and time to open the purses liberally!
Afgan families have an average of seven children. They don't need just food - those breeding couples could use some brains.
That's OK, the Taliban will still be able to recruit the remaining ones into their ranks when all is said and done..And then Russia and China will have to worry once more.
We'll be long gone from that "black hole" of the world
Currently, the population of Afghanistan is in the neighborhood of 34,000,000. With their current rate of population growth, they will be around 45,000,000 in 10 years.
Feeding the children, of course, sounds like the "right" thing to do, but it only forestalls a greater disaster in the future.
Educating the people would have a greater long-term effect, but with the current level of ignorance besieging the area, any attempt to bring the people into the 21st century is doomed to failure.
War is not working, reasoning with the Taliban and tribes does not work. What options are left? Seal their borders and wish them well? What a black hole of inhumanity.
We (the US) can't fix everything and trying to heal all the black holes will break us (further).
So we just leave the children to starve. Brilliant idea. I applaud you *sarcasm hand*.
yup. Afgans would chant and dance (like this.. ALALALALALA - click - boom) if amercians were starving. I say, let em starve... one less is better than one more.
Why is it up only to the U.S. to feed someone, especially Muslims who hate us? Where is that rich Saudi Arabia among this. I forgot they only support terrorists and madrassas and do not feed Muslim kids. Since Islam fully conquered Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 13th century, the whole area has fallen into the toilet and never got out the toilet. There was a wonderful Buddhist University at Naranda and existed up until the 14th century when it was finally destroyed by the Muslims and all the teachers and monks were murdered by the Muslims. What a fine bunch.
...I wish I knew why that stupid bush dragged us into that cesspool in the first place; a way for his war-profiteer cronies to pick the pockets of American taxpayers, I guess. And you can bet that nothing we do there is EVER for the benefit of the people who live there...
Unfortunately in any war the population and in this case the children suffer. Best thing that can happen, which we started, is opening schools, educating the children especially young women. Education will eventually change the culture albeit slowly.
The Saudis and other Arab nations are led by leaders who are approved by us: the leaders cannot do anything until we give them permission. To keep a steady oil coming to the West we cannot afford democracy in the area such as social-democract government in Iran after WWII who 'dared' to sell oil to us and was overthrown by us/England placing Shah of Iran. Sorry, we would not allow democracy in the oil producing countires. Hence feeding the children of Afghanistan lies with us.
Talking with soldiers that served in Afghanistan, many Afghanis (poll states 92% of Afghanis) thought that we were Russians who never left and did not know anything about the 911 events. Furthermore in Afghanistan and Syria many of our troops were deployed near the Iranian border to check Iranian's actions regarding thier nuclear activities. Now we are talking with Taliban going back to our discussions back in 2000 for mineral rights, oil pipeline, and protection of the opium fields. For example, Boston Power did not receive support from the Obama administration in creating about 600 jobs in the production of lithium battery. The company went to China obtaining investments from China and other American investors, and opened their factory near the Afghan border. Why? perhaps it's because Afghanistan has a very large deposit of lithium along with other minerals!
Before we call names such as 'cesspool,' rich Muslims not helping the Afghan children etc. we have to give them permission and allow them to act. Keep in mind many people in the Middle East believe (whether true or false) that 'America gets what it wants!' With that power we dictate what's going on in the ME.
awwwwwww, im heartbroken :)