Fighting child hunger and malnutrition in Mali and worldwide

Story and photos by Justin Douglass, World Vision Mali

October 16 was World Food Day. The story of baby Marie in Mali highlights the importance of finding long-term, sustainable solutions for hunger and child malnutrition around the world — and what we’re doing to accomplish just that.

People who saw Marie were worried.

The 18-month-old girl was too thin. She had a cough, and there was something wrong with her throat.
A community health worker encouraged Marie’s parents to take the baby girl to the health center in their region of Mali.

Baby Marie is given a peanut based nutritional suppl.

“I am concerned about what to do in the future, and concerned about the future of Marie,” says Hawa, Marie’s mother. “I think about Marie’s food and her health.”