Humanitarian Spirulina
Enfant malnutri au Burkina
 The malnutrition kills every year 11 millions of children.
 The malnutrition is not a fatality, contrary to the received ideas... some local remedies exist, and these remedies don't entail the dependence vis-à-vis rich countries

How does a child become affected by malnutrion?
Brutal transition from maternal milk to poor food (severance) + psychological shock, following the birth of a new child
Insufficient harvests: it is the period of the "Soldering" (June to October in country sahélien)
The most often, ignorance of the mother: food is very little varied, same cereal, same sauce, 2 times per day, no fruits, no meat or fish

Consequences
During the first 6 months, food to the breast, no problem, the child is quick, jolly
After 6 months, that spoils... from 6 months, introduction of the severance food, the gain of weight bends. At 12 months, weight doesn't reach 9kg. From 12 to 18 months, all evolutions are possible, dependent of the nutritional value of the severance food.

Marasm
Gauntness, melting muscular generalized, prominent and visible coasts, hollow eyes, jumpiness but quick appetite, very weak weight; his weight in relation to his age is located in the red zone (lower) of the growth card.
On the whole, he has the aspect of a "old kid". Generally. the child affected by marasm is easy to recover because he eats well, but his recuperation is slow.

Kwashiorkor
Edemas to the lower and superior members with lesions of skin, puffed up and pale face, distended stomach, sparse, redhead and brittle hair, sometimes of the ocular lesions.
Grouchy aspect, doesn't have an appetite anymore and nourishes itself with difficulty. Plus diarrhea and infections often pulmonary and cutaneous. He is frequently affected by anemia and presents of the deficiencies in trace elements as the A vitamin and Zinc. Refusal to nourish himself. delicate recuperation.

The malnutrition is not a fatality... In Koudougou (third city of Burkina, 100 000 inhabitants, middle income per capita: 40 $/month), operate since 5 years a farm of spirulina culture. The farms of Koudougou and Lumbila are to humanitarian goal. While improving your health, to Buy the Burkina Spirulina contributes to struggle against the malnutrition and the illnesses in Burkina thanks to the contribution of spiruline to the more disinherited.