Afghanistan’s Children Too Weak To Cry

A doctor who oversees a food program in Afghanistan said that malnutrion has caused mothers and their children to become too weak to cry.

 AQCHA, Afghanistan — A doctor who oversees a food program here said that malnutrion has caused mothers and their children to become too weak to cry.

“Most of the children are too tired and hungry, they don’t have the energy to cry,” said Dr. Nasrullah Sulfane, an administer of the the World Food Program and UNICEF.

Sulfane told the Associated Press that attendance to obtain the free food has been successful.

To make it through winter, the villages in the network have been put on a high-protein diet.

Afghanistan already has the world’s highest maternial mortality rate and the second highest child mortality rate.

The feeding program began in August in a backlash against insurgents who killed aid workers.

No one knows how many Afghan children are malnourished today, but many widely believe the situation has gotten worse since 2004 when the government found that 48 percent were found malnourished.

The WFP spent only $319 million on humanitarian programs in Afghanistan.