In Mandaya, a town in Syria, the food has run out and the people inside it are starting to eat whatever they could see. They started eating leaves, insects and even grass. As long as they think that it is edible.
This is what they needed to do in order to survive. As seen on the footage, a boy and his younger brother has been starving for several days. They have not eaten for 7 days. Their body is slowly weakened by this incident.
Most of the children are now malnourished because the town of Mandaya was under seige of a pro-government forces for several months now. Since October, the food aid has not been delivered.
People had been dying from malnutrition. They are fainting because of hunger. Serums are being injected to their body to make their sugar levels rise.
The town is in need of help so that they can survive the upcoming winter.
Syrian Town Starving to Death
It's been months since food aid arrived in this Syrian town, and people are starting to die from hunger.
Posted by AJ+ on Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Source: AJ+