ISSUE 2

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In developing countries, malnutrition leaves four of every 10 children stunted. The diet of a third of the world’s population is either insufficient or lacks the essential vitamins and minerals necessary for good health and growth. Yet the world is more than capable of feeding itself. Increased production of food crops, investment in rural infrastructure, better food distribution, and land reform are among the measures that can reduce hunger.

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Adut Bol is a 10-year-old girl in southern Sudan who has known little but war, suffering tragedy in her young life. In early 1996, she saw her father killed in a battle near her home village of Kuac Thii. Later that year, she has to flee the village withe her mother and six brothers during another attack. Displaced by war and living in the midst of a famine, Adut had little to look forward to and little reason to hope until she and her surviving family were accepted into Kut-Kut farms, a World Vision agricultural project teaching widows and their children how to farm while providing them with survival kits, structure, shelter and daily food.