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www.hungernomore.org
2, 6 - www.undp.org
3,5,7,8 - www.unicef.org
4,11,13 - www.bread.org
9,10 - www.fao.org
12 - www.pediatrics.org
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| 840 million people are undernourished worldwide - about equal to the population of the Western Hemisphere. |
| 1.2 billion people in developing countries live on $1 a day or less. |
| 70% of those who suffer from hunger are women and girls. |
| 6 million children under age five die each year as a result of hunger. |
| More than 33 million U.S. citizens - one in ten households - cannot afford to meet their basic food needs. If they all stood in a line at a food pantry in NYC, the line would stretch to Los Angeles and back. Twice. |
| One in five U.S. children is
born into poverty. One in seven has no health insurance.
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| Child survival programs - using simple, inexpensive health formulas save millions of lives. |
| International advocacy campaigns to reduce debt have yielded huge results. For example, with debt relief of $3 billion, Tanzania eliminated elementary school fees. Almost overnight, 1.6 million kids returned to school! |
| Contributions to CWS provide tools of hope around the world: |
| $15 can provide a hoe, shovel and vegetable seeds to a farmer in West Africa. |
| $25 can provide 5 warm blankets to a refugee family. |
| $50 can provide a dozen chicks for egg production in the Caribbean. |
| $175 can provide a family-sized tent for disaster victims. |
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| Bread for the World |
| The One Campaign |
| Students Against Hunger and Homelessness |
| Mazon ("a Jewish response to hunger") |
| National Law Center on Homeless and Poverty |
| World Hunger Year |
| Jubilee USA |
| UNICEF |
| Hunger No More |
| Americas Second Harvest |
| Action Against Hunger |
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| More than 1 billion
people lack access to safe drinking water and more than 2
billion lack sanitation.
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| The wealthiest
fifth of the world’s people consumes 86% of all goods and
services, while the poorest fifth consumes 1%.
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| Each day in the
developing world, 30,100 children die from mostly
preventable and treatable causes such as diarrhea, acute
respiratory infection or malaria.
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| There are more than
13 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.
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| Fourteen million
children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents
to AIDS. Four out of five of them live in sub-Saharan
Africa. 5 |
| Nearly 2.5 billion
of the world’s 6.3 billion people lack access to basic
sanitation. One billion people lack access to safe drinking
water. Contaminated water kills 2.2 million people per year.
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| Out of 100 children
born in 2000, 30 will most likely suffer from malnutrition
in the first five years of life, 26 will not be immunized
against the basic childhood diseases, 19 will lack access to
safe drinking water and 40 to adequate sanitation, and 17
will never go to school.
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| In developing
countries, every fourth child lives in abject poverty, in
families with an income of less than $1 per day.
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| More than 800
million people in the world go hungry.
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| Virtually every
country in the world has the potential of growing sufficient
food on a sustainable basis.
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| More than 2 million
children each year have severe visual problems due to lack
of vitamin A.
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| Preschool and
school-age children who experience severe hunger have higher
levels of chronic illness, anxiety and depression, and
behavior problems than children with no hunger.
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| In the last 50 years, almost 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation – that’s three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the 20th century. 13 |