Many Haitian families are unable to afford food and it is not uncommon for parents to starve one of their children in order to use that child for begging purposes or to get money to feed the rest of the family.
Malnutrition contributes to the spread of disease and contributes to the hopelessness associated with poverty.
Two times a week Christian World Outreach (CWO) provides a hot meal to approximately 150 children in Port-au-Prince.
The children who receive meals are generally orphaned, have lost one parent, have been abandoned due to disease, have HIV infections, or are neighborhood children who have been affected by the political instability and poverty.
