HUNGER STATISTICS and HUNGER FACTS

Hunger is a term which has three meanings:

• the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food
• the want or scarcity of food in a country
• a strong desire or craving

Consider this:

• 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry.
• In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food.
• In September 2009, the Guardian News in the United Kingdom reported that by the year 2050 there would be 25 million more hungry children. The most vulnerable areas, they reported, are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This is in addition to the millions that are already going hungry each year.
• In November 2009, Rediff Business reported that 300 million children in South Asia suffer from chronic levels of poverty. This children poverty number represents half of all the children living there.
• According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, nearly 5 million adolescents in America are poor, and more than 10 million live in low-income households. What’s more, that number has increased by 21 percent.
• In October 2009, Mirror News in the UK reported that Ethiopia has made appeals to the world for international aid to help feed 6.2 million starving people there, many of whom are starving children.
• In October 2009, the World Food Programme reported that there were now one billion people in the world suffering from hunger, and one out of six are chronically hungry right now.
• Approximately 5.6 billion people live in low and lower-middle income economies. This world, earning under $3,705 GNI per capita, is made up of about 103 low and middle income countries in which people generally have a lower standard of living with access to fewer goods and services than people in high-income countries.
• In 2005, almost 1.4 billion people lived below the international poverty line, earning less than $1.25 per day.
• Pregnant women, new mothers who breastfeed infants, and children are among the most at risk of undernourishment.
• n 2006, about 9.7 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. Almost all of these deaths occurred in developing countries, 4/5 of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two regions that also suffer from the highest rates of hunger and malnutrition.

Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide,

— greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Nutrition, mortality, water and sanitation facts based on UNICEF

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You Can Help Us End Hunger Among Children

It takes only pennies per day to feed one of the hungry children around the world. Don’t underestimate the power of your contribution. One person donating to help change the lives of children around the world may not have an enormous effect. But when you add together a lot of small contributions, they add up to big benefits. Lives get changed. Lives get saved.

Have you ever wanted to support a charity that helped others, especially children, but you wondered whether your donation would really make a difference? People often believe that their contribution will be too small to have an impact. So they make the decision to hold off on actually giving.

While that donation may not seem like a lot to you, to a starving or homeless child it may seem like everything. No donation is ever too small. Even small ones, when added together, amount to a great deal of good.

Please help us today so that we can help others who are less fortunate. When you give, the world gives back. Please take a few moments to learn more about what we do and how we do it. Our mission is to help children around the world through our music. But we can’t do it without your help and support.

Please help today. Don’t let one more day slip by. Another day gone means more children going hungry or sleeping out on the streets. We can end this. Together. Join us, won’t you?

Please visit our DONATIONS page to learn many different ways you can help to end hunger.