World hunger photos, pictures, video (and the stories)

Fiser's mother wants him to return to school some day. Photo: BBC

Bitter lives of Bolivia's child workers  Andres Schipani  BBC News October 11, 2009

Audio slideshow: The music of the ghetto. Disease, deprivation and drugs are the realities of daily life in Chibolya - a slum in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, which has inspired reggae artist Maiko Zulu. Let him take you on a musical tour of the area. BBC News August 19, 2009  (Flash player required.)
 

Food is scarce in Afghanistan.  Here two students at a mosque school in Kandahar sort pieces of dried naans, or unleavened bread, given to them by soldiers nearby. Photo: BBC

Some pictures of ordinary life in Afghanistan  BBC News August 2009 

One of the world's biggest refugee camps lies on Kenya's border with Somalia.  The Dadaab camp, designed to hold  90,000 refugees, now gives shelter to more than three times that number. Photo: BBC

In pictures: Kenya's camp for Somali refugees BBC News August 5, 2009

A family cell for undocumented immigrants at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, a former state prison near Austin, Tex., that drew an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit and scathing news coverage for putting young children behind razor wire.. The government will stop sending families there. Photo: L.M. Otero/New York Times

US government plans to overhaul immigration detainee system that currently places 400,000 people each year in 350 jails and prisons Nina Bernstein  New York Times  August 5, 2009

One location where a Chicago food bank is helping feed people that need food. Photo: BBC

Poverty hits African Americans hard  BBC News April 23, 2009  See video of food distribution 

Atlantic City homeless shelter video  BBC News April 22, 2009

Homeless victims of credit crunch  BBC News April 14, 2009

A woman holds her 6-month-old son, Abdul Rachman Salim, who is suffering from diarrhea and an eye infection, outside the Mercy Malaysia clinic in Zam Zam camp, in North Darfur. Aid agencies provide crucial services to 2.5 million displaced people in the region. Photo: Lynsey Addario/Los Angeles Times

Camps in Darfur struggle with aid groups' exit Edmund Sanders  Los Angeles Times March 17, 2009 Especially see audio slideshow: Desperation grows in Darfur camps Lynsey Addario, Edmund Sanders and Bryan Chan Los Angeles Times March 17, 2009 

Malnutrition in India is worse than in many African nations, stunting the growth of children like this girl in Shivpuri, photographed in November 2008. Photo: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

As Indian growth soars, child hunger persists Somni Sengupta New York Times March 13, 2009 (This article has several other valuable pictures.) India struggles with hunger Nancy Donaldson and Ruth Fremson New York Times  (Audio slide show) (Among other virtues, an excellent brief description of how hunger affects children.)

Baby Drupta weighs only 5.5 lbs and coughs incessantly.  Photo: BBC

Ignoring India's malnourished Soutik Biswas BBC News November 25, 2008

Mary Mwelu, 90, had not had a meal in two days when this picture was taken on 20 January 2009 due to a food crisis that has gripped Kenya Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN  Larger picture

Kenya: belt tightening as hunger spreads--causes include violence, high world food prices, and drought IRIN June 11, 2009

Seven-year-old Sinikiwe cradles her young brother Simba. Hunger stalks their family. Their local church, supported by the charity Tearfund provides what little food, clothing and seed they have. Photo: BBC

Disease and starvation in Zimbabwe  Paul Martin BBC News January 15, 2009 

An 80-year-old woman cradles her malnourished grandson near Afder, southern Ethiopia. Photo George Mulala/IRIN  Image ID: 2006111713 Larger picture

Two children suffering from malnutrition in Dhaka, Bangladesh .

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This malnourished child was brought to a feeding center in Maradi in 2005. Photo: Edward Parsons/IRIN

'Oil-rich' Nigeria’s malnourished throng to Niger’s feeding centers IRIN June 13, 2007 (You will leave this site.)