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Lack of Food Stunts Chad Children, Damages Minds | Essentials

Lack of Food Stunts Chad Children, Damages Minds

Wakefield High School
Wakefield High School by cliff1066™
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Excerpt:

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. 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 looked more like a lopsided triangle. After half a dozen tries, her teacher took away her slate and tried to hide his frustration as he wiped it clean with his palm of his hand. He held her miniature hand in his and traced a circle, then a second, then a third. "Like this," he said. "Like an egg. See?" Drawing a circle is considered a developmental marker.

People:

Achta

Overall Sentiment: 0.132622

Relevance: 0.708513

Hassane Wardougou

Overall Sentiment: -0.477213

Relevance: 0.355431

Jacques Terrenoire

Overall Sentiment: 0.156287

Relevance: 0.302515

SentimentQuote
-0.0288566"We have a habit of focusing on mortality, because the photographs are more shocking. But there is a silent phenomenon that is going on — it's stunting," says Jacques Terrenoire, ...
0.054909"We have a habit of focusing on mortality, because the photographs are more shocking. But there is a silent phenomenon that is going on — it's stunting," says Jacques Terrenoire, the Chad country director of the French aid group, Action Against Hunger. "It poses a fundamental problem for the future of a country."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0260524
  • Mean: 0.0130262
  • Standard Deviation: 0

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Additional Info:

City: Louri

Overall Sentiment: -0.0403524

Relevance: 0.441749

Continent: Africa

Overall Sentiment: 0.0136071

Relevance: 0.414574

Country: Chad

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.348966

Disambiguation: Location | BoardMemberReferences:

HealthCondition: malnutrition

Overall Sentiment: -0.144732

Relevance: 0.329517

Organization: UNICEF

Overall Sentiment: 0.0919249

Relevance: 0.305179

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