Many Poor Children in Ecuador Suffer from Malnutrition
Many Poor Children in Ecuador Suffer from Malnutrition qEPxa
Erwin Ronquillo, an official with the government program Ecuador Grows Without Malnutrition, is worried about hunger in his country.
Ronquillo said child malnutrition is chronic among Ecuador’s population. It is seen everywhere, but hits hardest in rural areas and among the country’s Native peoples, he said.
The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF keeps information related to children and their development for countries around the world. UNICEF information suggests that one in three Ecuadorian children suffers from malnutrition. Of those, about 41 percent are Native.
Neiri Espinosa is a mother whose partner left her. She lives in a neighborhood of the capital city, Quito, called Pisulí. She said her children, who are eight and four years old, do not usually eat meat. Both children appear to be younger because of their height and the thinness of the youngest girl.
Sometimes the family buys chicken, but not often, Espinosa said.
“It is difficult to get any job (as a domestic worker), worse after the pandemic, ” she said.
Erwin
Ronquillo
, an official with the
government
program Ecuador Grows Without Malnutrition,
is worried
about hunger in his country.
Ronquillo
said child malnutrition is chronic among Ecuador’s population. It is
seen
everywhere,
but
hits hardest in rural areas and among the country’s Native peoples, he said.
The United Nations
children’s
agency UNICEF
keeps
information related to
children
and their development for countries around the world.
UNICEF information
suggests that one in three Ecuadorian
children
suffers from malnutrition. Of those, about 41 percent are Native.
Neiri
Espinosa is a mother whose partner
left
her. She
lives
in a neighborhood of the capital city, Quito, called
Pisulí
. She said her
children
, who are eight and four years
old
, do not
usually
eat meat. Both
children
appear to be younger
because
of their height and the thinness of the youngest girl.
Sometimes
the family
buys
chicken,
but
not
often
, Espinosa said.
“It is difficult to
get
any job (as a domestic worker), worse after the pandemic,
”
she said.
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