{"id":327,"date":"2008-06-09T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2008\/06\/everyones-starv.html"},"modified":"2008-06-09T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T08:48:40","slug":"everyones-starv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2008\/06\/everyones-starv.html","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s Starving in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia (AP) &#8212; Like so many other victims of Ethiopia&#8217;s hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.<\/p>\n<p>\nA 3-year-old Ethiopian child weighing less than 10 pounds is seen at an emergency feeding center May 9.<\/p>\n<p>But Usheto is not the typical face of Ethiopia&#8217;s chronic food problems, the scrawny baby or the ailing toddler. At 55 years old, he is among a growing number of adults and older children &#8212; traditionally less vulnerable groups &#8212; who have been stricken by severe hunger because of poor rains and recent crop failure in southern Ethiopia, health workers say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To see adults in this condition, it&#8217;s a very serious situation,&#8221; nurse Mieke Steenssens, a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, told The Associated Press as she registered the 5-foot, 4-inch Usheto&#8217;s weight at just 73 pounds (33 kilograms).<\/p>\n<p>Aid groups say the older victims suggest an escalation in the crisis in Ethiopia, a country that drew international attention in 1984 when a famine compounded by communist policies killed some 1 million people.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s crisis, brought on by a countrywide drought and skyrocketing global food prices, is far less severe. But while figures for how many adults and older children are affected are not available, at least four aid groups interviewed by the AP said they noticed a troubling increase. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/africa\/06\/09\/ethiopia.hunger.ap\/index.html\">Read the rest of the article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re overwhelmed,&#8221; said Margaret Aguirre, a spokeswoman for the International Medical Corps, a California-based aid agency. &#8220;There&#8217;s not enough food and everyone&#8217;s starving and that&#8217;s all there is to it.&#8221; iReport.com: Share your photos, videos and stories from Ethiopia<a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/09\/artethiopiahungerap.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artethiopiahungerap\" src=\"https:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/images\/2008\/06\/09\/artethiopiahungerap.jpg\" width=\"355\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia (AP) &#8212; Like so many other victims of Ethiopia&#8217;s hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half what he should. 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