070718 Caritas Venezuela 00309
Sisters Yusmarely and Yusmary surrounded by their children outside their mother's home in Tomuso, Venezuela. The sisters support one another in their efforts to source food for their children. Yusmarely's two youngest have been receiving nutritional support from Caritas Venezuela for after they were found to be undernourished during a growth monitoring session. "I could feel her bones when I bathed her," says Yusmarely of daughter Grendimar who she holds in her lap of what she was like when she was enrolled in the nutritional feeding program. "She’s transformed. I’d cry and cry. She was too old for the project but they let her in anyway." The current minimum monthly salary averages to about $1.50 and covers only 2 percent of the minimum nutritional basket. As of March 2018, it would require 73 monthly salaries solely to cover the cost of feeding a family. Families cope by selling off goods, cutting back on meals and the quantity of food served at each meal. Routine growth monitoring sessions conducted by Caritas has shown that 70 percent of children under 5 show signs of some form of nutrition with 8 percent from severe malnutrition. Galloping inflation has pushed 92 percent of the population into poverty. The current minimum monthly salary averages to about $1.50 and covers only 2 percent of the minimum nutritional basket. As of March 2018, it would require 73 monthly salaries solely to cover the cost of feeding a family. Families cope by selling off goods, cutting back on meals and the quantity of food served at each meal. Routine growth monitoring sessions conducted by Caritas has shown that 70 percent of children under 5 show signs of some form of nutrition with 8 percent from severe malnutrition.
070718 Caritas Venezuela 00309
Sisters Yusmarely and Yusmary surrounded by their children outside their mother's home in Tomuso, Venezuela. The sisters support one another in their efforts to source food for their children. Yusmarely's two youngest have been receiving nutritional support from Caritas Venezuela for after they were found to be undernourished during a growth monitoring session. "I could feel her bones when I bathed her," says Yusmarely of daughter Grendimar who she holds in her lap of what she was like when she was enrolled in the nutritional feeding program. "She’s transformed. I’d cry and cry. She was too old for the project but they let her in anyway." The current minimum monthly salary averages to about $1.50 and covers only 2 percent of the minimum nutritional basket. As of March 2018, it would require 73 monthly salaries solely to cover the cost of feeding a family. Families cope by selling off goods, cutting back on meals and the quantity of food served at each meal. Routine growth monitoring sessions conducted by Caritas has shown that 70 percent of children under 5 show signs of some form of nutrition with 8 percent from severe malnutrition. Galloping inflation has pushed 92 percent of the population into poverty. The current minimum monthly salary averages to about $1.50 and covers only 2 percent of the minimum nutritional basket. As of March 2018, it would require 73 monthly salaries solely to cover the cost of feeding a family. Families cope by selling off goods, cutting back on meals and the quantity of food served at each meal. Routine growth monitoring sessions conducted by Caritas has shown that 70 percent of children under 5 show signs of some form of nutrition with 8 percent from severe malnutrition.