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5 Crucial Facts About Childhood Hunger, Poverty In Chad

5 Crucial Facts About Childhood Hunger, Poverty In Chad
Eleanor Goldberg
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Business Reporter, HuffPost

ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY DEC 22, 2012 - In this Nov. 4, 2012 photo, three-year-old Fatime Mahamat, suffering from severe malnutrition, rests in a nutritional health clinic run by Action Against Hunger with the support of UNICEF, in Mao, Chad. In this Sahel nation, childhood malnutrition and related mortality persist at alarming rates, despite the fact that many affected families live within a day's journey of internationally-funded nutrition clinics. One reason is that families, bound by local custom, choose instead to seek traditional treatments, treatments which can lead to the very infections that kill their undernourished children.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY DEC 22, 2012 - In this Nov. 4, 2012 photo, three-year-old Fatime Mahamat, suffering from severe malnutrition, rests in a nutritional health clinic run by Action Against Hunger with the support of UNICEF, in Mao, Chad. In this Sahel nation, childhood malnutrition and related mortality persist at alarming rates, despite the fact that many affected families live within a day's journey of internationally-funded nutrition clinics. One reason is that families, bound by local custom, choose instead to seek traditional treatments, treatments which can lead to the very infections that kill their undernourished children.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Today the BBC is reporting from Mongo, Chad, looking at the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what challenges remain. The first MDG set the target of halving extreme poverty and hunger, but much work remains to be done in Chad.

Here are five things you may not have known about poverty and hunger in Chad:

1. Chad is one of the poorest countries in the world.

Chad rates 184th of 187 countries in the UN’s World Human Development Index. Children in Chad face dangers on a daily basis, and the country faces significant challenges to make progress: poor access to medical services, epidemics such as measles and cholera, and armed conflict and refugee crises in neighbouring countries.

Read more on blogs.unicef.org.uk

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