Affects chronic and cyclicly malnourished. A hungry child represents a lost opportunity. There no making up for it later, the child and society is robbed of their potential. Hunger is a basic need which when unsatisfied, blocks out all other pursuits. A life spent chronically or cyclically malnurished is a life of limit opportunity, sickness, and often premature death.
Hunger represents a basic denial of the opportunity for people to develope to their potentials.
It is a fundamental injustice. Even in a free country, a person who is hungry is not free. The largest number of hungry people live in South Asia. Children have the highest poverty rate of any age group. US has the highest child poverty rate of any developed country.