So, so sad.
It reminds me of an account I read in, I think it was either the More With Less Cookbook, or Living More With Less, about a Mennonite aid worker who visited a family in Bangladesh and saw a few healthy looking children in the family and one child who was a waif, white as a ghost and on the verge of death. WHen she inquired of another aid worker what was the matter with this child, the woman told her that the family didn't have enough money for food, and that was the child they had chosen to starve.
I think we just can't begin to imagine the heartache that is going on in the world when we don't see it. I wish more of these stories were told.