Soymilk offers nutrition for children in North Korea

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This young boy in North Korea drinks soymilk from a Mennonite Central Committee project. MCC is providing 200 tons of soybeans, worth $130,000, to make soymilk for children in North Korean schools and orphanages. The shipment is intended to alleviate malnutrition among 40,000 children in North Korea. According to the World Food Program, more than a third of North Korean children are chronically malnourished, causing many health problems, such as stunted growth. MCC is partnering with a Canadian organization, First Steps, to purchase the soybeans in China and ship them to North Korea. Using equipment from First Steps, North Korean schools and orphanages process the soybeans into soymilk and serve it daily to children.—MCC, photo by Kathi Suderman

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