Category: OS Cares Foundation Research

Children under five (vulnerable especially to under-nutrition, malnutrition and infectious diseases);

Statistics South Africa has shown that food insecurity is not an exceptional, short-term event, but is rather a continuous threat for more than a third of the population.

The SA parliament has declared that every South African citizen has the right to safe and nutritious food at all times.

One child in four under the age of six years (translating to approximately 1.5 million children) is stunted due to chronic malnutrition.