Ability Quote by Ann Veneman

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

— Jeff Bridges

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which…

— Dionne Warwick

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development…

— Geoffrey Canada

“Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when people die. Yet, poverty is about much more…

— P Sainath

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is…

— Nicholas Kristof

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future…

— Carol Bellamy

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

— Anonymous

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly,…

— Cat Cora

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen