Babies
For every one thousand babies born in Papua New Guinea, more than seventy will die before their fifth birthday. The country's morgues are filling up with tiny abandoned corpses. Faced with this crisis, inspirational PNG women are fighting back.
"I say constantly that the most valuable resource of Papua New Guinea is the children." Dame Carol Kidu is the PNG's Community Services Minister. She feels that the country is facing an identity crisis. As pressures to modernise increase, people are forgetting their roots: many women now believe bottle-feeding to be the best way to bring up their newborns. But as social worker Tiff Nongor explains, bottled milk is low in nutrition and vital antibodies. With government initiatives few and feeble, community leaders are becoming desperate, "We're hitting our head against a brick wall".
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