The SA National Health and Nutritional and Examination Survey (Sanhanes) by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has painted a bleak picture of the country’s health status, but even more disturbing is the fact that many of the country’s children still go to school without food.
The survey showed that not only were children’s growth stunted, increasing from 23.4 percent in 2005 to 26.5 percent this year, but 34 percent of children had no food to eat for breakfast.
Source: www.iol.co.za