The Starved for Attention campaign was spotlighted in Rome at two special events for World Food Day.

After its run in Milan in June and Ferrara in October, the Starved for Attention exhibit came to Rome’s Centrale Montemartini museum. More than 50 people attended the opening of the exhibit, which was on display for over a week.

The exhibit opening at Rome's Centrale Montemartini.

Visitors watch the Starved for Attention films and slideshows.

MSF Medical Advisor Gianfranco De Maio is interviewed at the exhibit.

On the eve of World Food Day, MSF organized a debate in the Italian Senate around childhood malnutrition and food aid with the Human Rights Commission and Community of Sant’Egidio, an organization which promotes human rights in international relations. The debate featured speakers from MSF, the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the World Food Program; more than 100 people were in attendance.

Mario Marazziti from the Community of Sant'Egidio speaks in the Italian Senate House.

Audience members listen to the debate on food aid.

The Starved for Attention exhibit is now on view for the George Washington University community at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Himmelfarb Library.  

The exhibit will be on display for several months as part of a campus-wide effort, organized by the Center for Global Health, to raise awareness about childhood malnutrition.

For some students, like engineer Shankar Venkateswaran from Kerala, India, the exhibit provides an introduction to MSF as well as nutrition and food aid issues. For others already familiar with MSF’s work, like public health masters student LaShantae Norman, the exhibit “lets students become aware” of the malnutrition crisis in an engaging way; “we’re so visual now,” she says.

George Washington University students view the exhibit. © MSF

Starved for Attention Toronto Exhibit

Blending photography and video, the exhibit features the work of award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency, who traveled to malnutrition “hotspots” around the world to shed light on the causes of the crisis and approaches to combat this condition.

Starved for Attention runs from June 19 to June 26 2010. A public talk by Marilyn McHarg (MSF Canada General Director) and Sherri Grady (MSF field nurse) will be held at the library on June 22nd at 6:30 pm, moderated by acclaimed journalist Sally Armstrong.

Starved for Attention Toronto Exhibit

Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street, Toronto

Panel Discussion June 22, 6:30-7:30 pm