CNN featured an article last week about children in Haiti and the global food crisis. The opening line was incredible:“Some mothers choose what their children will eat. Others choose which children will eat and which will die.”

If that doesn’t cut right to the point (straight through the heart too), then what does? Here are a few excerpts from the article that everyone here at World Concern thought were especially poingniant:

“Haitians are so desperate for food that many mothers wait to name their newborns because so many infants die of malnourishment. Other Haitian mothers keep their children alive by parceling out food to them, but some make an excruciating choice when their food rationing fails, she says.”

“The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies.” Four decades later, King’s wish remains unfulfilled. The global food market’s shelves are getting bare, hunger activists say — and it will get worse.”

Read the full article on CNN’s website