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Pandemia dispara el número de niños que pasan hambre en Estados Unidos

Organización Feeding America estima que alrededor de 50 millones de personas se considerarán en situación de inseguridad alimentaria este año, incluidos alrededor de 17 millones de niños

People carry food donated by volunteers from the Baltimore Hunger Project outside of Padonia International Elementary school on December 4, 2020 in Cockeysville, Maryland. - More and more children are going hungry in the US as it weathers the world's worst coronavirus outbreak, which has killed around 280,000 people and caused a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Nearly 12 percent of adults said they did not not have enough to eat "sometimes" or "often" last month, according to the Commerce Department, while 10 percent of mothers reported their children under the age of five went hungry to some degree in October and November, a Brookings Institution survey found. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
People carry food donated by volunteers from the Baltimore Hunger Project outside of Padonia International Elementary school on December 4, 2020 in Cockeysville, Maryland. - More and more children are going hungry in the US as it weathers the world's worst coronavirus outbreak, which has killed around 280,000 people and caused a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Nearly 12 percent of adults said they did not not have enough to eat "sometimes" or "often" last month, according to the Commerce Department, while 10 percent of mothers reported their children under the age of five went hungry to some degree in October and November, a Brookings Institution survey found. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) OLIVIER DOULIERY
Las personas trasladan alimentos donados por voluntarios del Baltimore Hunger Project fuera de la escuela primaria Padonia International, el 4 de diciembre del 2020, en Cockeysville, Maryland. Foto: AFP (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP)

Cockeysville. Antes de que la pandemia cerrara su escuela y los funcionarios de inmigración de Estados Unidos deportaran a su padre a El Salvador, Kimberly Orellana, de 14 años, no sentía miedo de pasar hambre.

Sin embargo, el salario de su madre, ahora el único sostén de su hogar, no es suficiente para alimentarla a ella y a sus dos hermanitas.

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