Thu, Aug 21, 2003 - Page 6 News List

Lack of food subdues the joy of peace

PRIORITIES A deal ending the civil war in Liberia has done nothing to ease the immediate problems of starvation facing many in the nation's countryside

AP , FENDELL, LIBERIA

"Over half a million people have no access to [clean] water, no access to food," Farah said. "We're not going to wait" to help.

Aid workers of the international charity Action Contre la Faim, or Action Against Hunger, have filled three feeding centers with 450 toddlers under five and their care-givers -- many with distended bellies and skin swollen and wrinkled from vitamin and protein deficiencies.

"I have never seen this many seriously malnourished children before," said Annie Wright, an aid worker who has spent nine years with the organization.

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