Americans are expected to spend almost $900 on holiday gifts this year — which could feed 18 starving infants for seven weeks.
So reports Edesia Global, a nonprofit in Rhode Island which manufactures emergency nutrition for starving children in developing countries. That $50 buys a seven-week supply of Plumpy’Nut, a peanut-based high-nutrition paste that can take an infant from the brink of death back to health, the group says. The product is delivered by organizations such as Doctors Without Borders.
UNICEF estimates that around the world about three million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition every year. It accounts for about half of the deaths of all small children. It’s something individuals may want to bear in mind as they weigh the cost and value of their holiday spending. American adults are expected to spend nearly $900 each on holiday presents this year.
Surgeons operating a pediatric field hospital in Uganda — gross domestic product per person: $670 — estimated last year in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons that the full costs of the hospital worked out to around $554 for each life saved. It is, obviously, much more difficult and expensive to save a life in Uganda by operating on a child in a field hospital than it is to just send them a box of peanut-based food. On the other hand, some conditions need surgery, not just food.
There are plenty of assumptions involved in these calculations, so it’s only a ballpark figure. But their estimate, published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, is that the average cost of saving each child’s life in low-income countries has worked out to around $4,200 per life.
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