Students Fainting From Hunger in Venezuela’s Schools Amid Economic Crisis

People look for food outside a looted supermarket at El Valle neighborhood, in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 21, 2017. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

Children attending schools across Venezuela are regularly fainting due to a lack of food, The New York Times reported.

The publication cited an incident at the Augusto D’Aubeterre Lyceum primary school in which five children fainted and two more were taken to hospital during a 15-minute prayer ceremony led by a local Catholic bishop.