Efforts to improve food security have not led to consistent improvements in nutrition for young children. Despite humanitarian assistance, a severe nutrition crisis persists. Prevention is key to breaking the cycle of malnutrition.
Current programs mainly focus on treatment rather than prevention. Further details on this issue are available from the source. A significant number of children are affected, with estimates indicating a major problem that requires greater investment in prevention to address the root causes.
Our world is profoundly distracted, disordered, and scattered. It would be tempting to attribute this to a non-Christian society—to multiplied desires and endless consumer options, to secularized pursuits of shallow pleasure. But Christians fare little better here, bombarded with...
I’ve written earlier in this series about the connection between homelessness and “adverse childhood experiences,” including unstable childhoods marked by movement around multiple foster homes. In centuries past, Americans hoped that orphanages would help to alleviate the damage ...
. In 2025, they killed more than 1,000 civilians, while global response falters. 8 September 2026: At least 1,063 people were killed or injured by cluster munitions in 2025, one of the highest annual totals ever recorded by the Cluster Munition Monitor report. Civilians accounted...
. The escalating crisis context leaves thousands of children at heightened risk of severe illness and preventable mortality without immediate intervention. MSF, UNICEF, and humanitarian partners are raising alarm over worsening food insecurity and rapidly deteriorating malnutriti...
. The Interagency We.Link/FRRM helpline received a total of 48,490 calls and 7,770 new queries during July 2026 representing a 102.6% increase compared to June 2026. 4,748 (61.1%) new queries came from females and 3,022 (38.9%) from males. At the helpline level, 6,566 (84.50%) qu...
. In August, below-average rainfall, prolonged dry spells and above-normal temperatures threatened crop production, livestock and water availability across South Sudan. These conditions coincided with the critical June-to-September planting season and affected parts of Eastern Eq...
. Against a backdrop of continued hostilities, repeated displacement, deteriorating living conditions and growing humanitarian needs across Lebanon, the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) allocated US$23.4 million through its 2026 Reserve Allocation, complemented by US$12 million fr...
