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LeDuc: Give thanks by sharing the bounty
Metro Daily News , November 20, 2007
. . . For many residents of this great Commonwealth of ours, getting enough food can be a real struggle. Tragically, hunger affects a large number of children in Massachusetts. The cost of food is at a 10-year high and fuel costs are at an all-time high. For many, there is simply not enough money to pay for . . .
Heat kids' health eye
The Boston Herald, October 27, 2007
Photo by Lisa Hornak
Worried: Kayla Leonard, 2, of Dorchester rubs tears off her mother Ketline’s face, left.
A medical group yesterday warned that skyrocketing oil prices endanger the health of young children in low-income neighborhoods. Testifying before a hearing hosted by Joe Kennedy’s nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., a representative of the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program said children who live in inadequately heated homes require more hospitalization, lose weight and acquire development problems. A teary eyed Ketline Leonard, holding her two-year-old daughter Kayla, said she can barely make ends meet, let alone pay for energy to heat her home. Kennedy, who heads the nonprofit, and congressional members sent a letter yesterday urging President Bush to boost funding for fuel-assistance programs.
- Jay Fizgerald
The Grow Clinic helps local children thrive: working to treat and prevent childhood malnutrition
The Boston Globe, February 2, 2007
Hunger is an equal opportunity employer
Boston-Bay State Banner, January 11, 2007
The Grow Clinic food pantry resides in a large room near the hospital’s WIC office. The pantry boasts only nutritional foods, such as tuna fish and peanut butter that are prescribed to malnourished children. Pictured here are pantry coordinator Emile Kamadau (left) and pantry assistant Miguel Medina (right). (Brian Mickelson photo)
Malnutrition is usually associated with Third World countries. Not the United States and certainly not Boston. But in the South End, where the Boston Medical Center stands, Dr. Deborah Frank treats patients who suffer from malnutrition every day. .
Children at risk
American School Board Journal, December 2006
On a malnourished 5-year-old, the facial fat is the last to go. Bundled against the Boston winter, he looks like a normal child, his plump little face peeking out from inside a discount store parka. But a doctor can tell
Over and Under: Two Boston Medical Center Clinics treat children who are too heavy or too thin, and both confront a common cause: poverty
The Boston Globe, October 9, 2006 | 
