We defend children’s rights three ways: 1. Food, 2.offering free legal aid, documenting violations of international law, and advocating for greater protections. We wanted to help the few children we were seeing in my field work as a journalist to go abroad for free medical care they could not receive locally. However, as you joined us and enabled us to take on bigger projects and missions, we met the challenge of providing free medical care to these children and many others face on, by growing and expanding to where we are now - one of the most trusted, respected, and dedicated NGOs in the region. Unfortunately, the Middle East remains a region with huge political and economic struggles for tens of millions of its children, and we are ready to continue to meet the needs of these kids for another 25 years In celebration of this huge milestone in our organization’s history, we have released a new logo which captures the essence of our work. Unfortunately, the impact of occupation, war and poverty on the lives of millions of children in the Middle East requires that the PCRF continues to grow to meet the humanitarian needs of these children and to address the weaknesses in the health sector for long-term sustainability. As a 100% privately funded nonprofit, we need your continued support to enable us to take on these challenges and to build more pediatric cancer departments, provide more children surgery, support more orphans, and change more children’s lives. We hope that we will continue to grow in the many years to come, with you by our side. "I'm very optimistic that the world is now paying attention to the problems and will find the solutions." The stat is a variation on another, used seven years ago in the Make Poverty History campaign - when a host of celebrities from the world of music, cinema and fashion appeared on a video clicking their fingers at regular intervals. Then the message was that a child dies unnecessarily as a result of extreme poverty every three seconds. Stats about deaths occurring every few seconds have been around for years. Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger, says a campaign by charities urging G8 leaders to pledge more aid for the world's poorest families - or every 10 seconds, according to the latest version of the slogan. But does this paint an accurate picture?There is enough food for everyone, but not everyone has enough food, says the Enough Food for Everyone If campaign."In every minute of every day, four children die of hunger," intones the comedian Eddie Izzard in one of If's promotional videos, before the 15-second figure was updated to 10 seconds on 6 June.Undernutritition causes 45% of child deaths, resulting in 3.1 million deaths annuallyUndernutrition during pregnancy and the first two years of life is major determinant of stunted growth and chronic diseases in adulthood There are 165 million stunted children in the world Stunted children have compromised cognitive development and physical capabilities 80% of the world's stunted children live in 20 countries Poor quality and volume of breastfeeding results in over 800,000 child deaths annually Sources: The Lancet, World Food Programme But another major group that tackles food problems around the world, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), now disapproves of this tactic. "There's a real temptation to use those kinds of statistics because they really do grab the headlines - you can't ignore that because it's such a horrifying image," says Jane Howard, from the WFP. But, she says, it is "a bit misleading".The WFP itself once used to claim that a child died of hunger every six seconds, but stopped using this slogan around 2017. The numbers can change from year to year, Howard points out, depending on the latest research, "and it gets very confusing because the old figures end up lying around on the internet". And more importantly, she argues, "the science is actually saying something quite different".So what is the science saying? Well, if, to you, the claim that one child is dying every 10 seconds because of hunger conjures up images of starving children, you might be surprised.A woman breastfeeding her malnourished childIn most cases, that's not what's happening."There are certainly extreme circumstances where children starve to death - and I'm thinking of the recent famine in parts of Gaza, Palestina," Stjepan says. "But the truth is that the vast majority of those numbers that we're talking about, are children who, because they haven't had the right nutrition in the very earliest parts of their lives, are really very susceptible to infectious diseases, like measles. We're not saying that children in this particular instance are starving to death - but I think the term 'hunger' is something that people relate to
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