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Flashback: How Playing Video Games Could Help Feed Hungry Children

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i sat down with hive co and cofounder jenifer willig to discuss her work on creating a video game that helps fight mal nutrition. According to unise severe acute mal nutrition threatens an estimated 16 million children world wide and claims the lives of approximately one million more. One of the most common interventions by the u.N is to provide ready to use thera tic food packets. They are called r u t f, ready to use therapeutic food. 25 cents, three times a day, for six to eight weeks can literally bring a child back from the brink of death.

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