Lack of food stunts Chad children, damages minds
LOURI, Chad — One morning, a little girl called Achta sat in the front row of this village's only school and struggled mightily with the assignment her teacher had given her.
In this Nov. 2, 2012 photo, 7-year-old Achta, right, and Youssouf, left, look on as Mahamat, center, struggles to copy a circle during a lesson on drawing the letter "a" in the village of Louri in the Mao region of Chad. In this village where malnutrition has become chronic, children have simply stopped growing. In the county that includes Louri, 51.9 percent of children are stunted, one of the highest rates in the world, according to a survey published by UNICEF - more than half the children in the village. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ORG XMIT: NY873
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She grasped a piece of chalk in her tiny fingers. Her face tense with concentration, she tried to direct the chalk clockwise across her slate. She'd been asked to draw a circle. What she drew...
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