This week we've been talking a lot about poverty and how it affects children the most. I ran across this article and honestly it makes me sick to my stomach. The thing that caught my attention was the main picture; it was a picture of Salem, a five year old boy. You see the boy's skeletal body and his sunken cheeks. He suffers from malnutrition. There is one sentence in particular that saddens me, "Masbah, the mother of Salem, says her boy remembers only hunger." Poverty isn't just in the United States, it's world wide. We get so caught up with our own lives and our own problems. However, we never really pay attention to the true suffering of others. I have taken a lot for granted and it's stories like this that make me realize how blessed I truly am.
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-09-16/ravaged-by-conflict-yemens-coast-faces-rising-malnutrition
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