A global hunger epidemic is spreading through communities that already had little enough to eat, as COVID-19 collapses the world’s economy and shuts down access to food in developing countries on every continent.
Most of the coronavirus news has centered on the U.S., but people in these countries are affected too, and are crying for help as coronavirus dries up their food sources. Ports are locked down, so food imports are stopped. And with schools closed, hundreds of millions of children don’t even have the lunches they once depended on.
Source: The New York Times April 22, 2020