Princess Viktória visits Mozambique to learn about malnutrition

[Jennifer]

Princess Viktoria visited Mozambique to understand more about the malnutrition that's happening there. It is sad that hundreds of the country's children are still suffering. It is definitely important for Save the Children and other non-profit groups to help support them.  Because of them, the children will continue to have hope despite the unfortunate situations they are in.

Princess Viktória of Bourbon-Parma, wife of Prince Jaime, Count of Bardi, a first cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, visited Mozambique last week to learn more about chronic malnutrition.

Princess Viktória spent a week around the town of Beira and the province of Sofala. She did this as a patron of the Dutch branch of Save the Children, an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

"Chronic malnutrition isn't the same as acute malnutrition when children have nothing to eat at all. With chronic malnutrition, there is food available, but not enough or it isn't nutritional enough. The children aren't thin, but they are smaller than they should be for their age," Princess Viktória explained. "Chronic malnutrition is especially damaging for a child's development in the first 1000 days of their lives." Without plenty of nutrition in those first 1000 days, the delayed development will never catch up.

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Princess Viktória visits Mozambique to learn about malnutrition – Royal Central