What happens to children at the feeding centers?
Children are evaluated before they are admitted to the feeding centers. These centers are designed to help children with complications so severe that they face likely death without supervised intensive care. Most of the children admitted to these centers are between the ages of two and five. They are treated for infections and given a special milk formula that enables children on the brink of starvation to recover. The organs of a child shut down in the last stages of starvation. This treatment helps revive those organs, and allows a child to begin to recover and to put on weight. Often, after three to four weeks of treatment, starving children are able to recover sufficiently so they return to their villages where we provide supplementary feeding.
