THEY SAID WE WOULDN’T HUNGER: A SHOCKING 7% OF SOUTH AFRICAN KIDS ARE NOW STUNTED BY MALNUTRITION
For 15 years, a corporate foundation has served breakfasts to schoolchildren. But the crisis is only getting WORSE. Damning new data reveals a devastating truth: SEVEN PERCENT of South African schoolchildren are moderately or severely stunted. Their future is being stolen before they can even sit down at a desk.
This is the brutal reality the Tiger Brands Foundation is now scrambling to confront with its new “Khulisa” strategy. They admit their old model is NOT ENOUGH. Pictures of hot meals and happy volunteers can’t hide the systemic failure. Children are still arriving at school too hungry to learn, their bodies and minds permanently scarred by a lack of food.
So who benefits from the status quo? Who stays silent while a generation is crippled? The Foundation points fingers at rising food prices and “limited resources,” but the question burns: why has this been allowed to fester for so long? Their new plan promises “dignity” and “sustainability” by 2035—with fancy tech like the Zibo NutriBot monitoring the problem in real-time. But a child’s stunted growth CANNOT BE UNDONE with an app.
This isn’t just about breakfast. This is about a hidden pattern of neglect that condemns the poor to stay poor. While officials tout partnerships and long-term visions, classrooms are filling with children whose potential has been STARVED out of them.
The truth is on the plate, and it is a sentence already passed.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
