To prevent children from dying in a famine, they simply need food.

Children are the most impacted by famine and, not just because of lack of food, but lack of nutritious food and supplements to help them survive preventable diseases like pneumonia or malaria. In the 2011 Somalia famine, half of the nearly 260,000 deaths were children under five years old. Today the UN estimates more than one million children under five in South Sudan are acutely malnourished. Global acute malnutrition(GAM) rates among children under five are above 30 per cent in the areas of South Sudan where famine was declared and above 15 per cent in other parts of the country, which is well above the 10 percent emergency threshold.