The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched the second part of its multiphase campaign to detect and treat widespread malnutrition in children in the West African State of Togo. UNICEF has so far opened 134 nutritional rehabilitation centres, trained more than 1,750 health agents and supplied more than 200 tons of food, medicines and related materials in Togo but had focused mainly on large population areas. In this second phase the agency is targeting dozens of more isolated villages in the Savanes and Kara regions in the north of the country and the Maritime region in the far south. Eventually UNICEF expects to treat almost 77,000 children, provide nutritional supplements to more than 1 million children and offer awareness-raising about good food practices and breast-feeding to over 90,000 pregnant or new mothers.
At least 14 per cent of Togolese children under the age of five are currently estimated to be malnourished, with many parents so poor they cannot pay for transport for their suffering children to be treated at the nearest health-care centre.
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