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Venezuela’s children starve as Maduro refuses to let in aid: Babies are reduced to ‘little bones wrapped in skin’ while crisis continues

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Help: Daniela Olmos, president and founder of the Kapuy Foundation, which supports children in situation of abandonment or with serious health problems, including undernourishment, plays with children in Maracay, Aragua state
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  • Eight in ten children in Venezuela are at risk of malnutrition in current crisis, experts warn
  • A can of milk for newborns costs 70,000 bolivares, which is around four times the monthly minimum wage
  • Hospital staff say children who are being brought in resemble ‘bones wrapped in skin’ 
  • Despite the crisis, President Nicolas Maduro still refuses to lift blockade of humanitarian aid

As President Nicolas Maduro stages the biggest military drills in Venezuela’s history, and steadfastly maintains a border blockade that is stopping humanitarian aid from entering the country, thousands of children are wasting away and starving to death.

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Hungry children ‘eating from school bins’ in Morecambe

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Siobhan Collingwood said children are arriving at school with empty lunchboxes

Siobhan Collingwood said children are arriving at school with empty lunchboxes

 

Children are arriving at a school so hungry they are searching the bins for food, its head teacher has said.

A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to appoint a Minister for Hunger to deal with “food insecurity” especially among children.

Siobhan Collingwood, head teacher of the school in Morecambe, Lancashire, said one in 10 of its pupils came from families using foodbanks.

“Unfortunately I’ve got the faces behind the statistics,” she added.

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