World Hunger

Last month's focus was world poverty.   World poverty and world hunger go hand in hand, therefore February's theme is "World Hunger."  To lay the foundation for a basic understanding, here are some key facts about this issue.

According to Bread for the World:

"An estimated 1.02 billion people in the world go hungry.


Each year, 3 million under-five children die because they are undernourished.1 Far more children live with undernutrition than die from it. For infants and young children, the effects of chronic malnutrition in the early years of life are largely irreversible.


In the United States, over 49 million people—including 16.7 million children—live in households that struggle to put food on the table. That means one in seven households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger."

Do you understand just how staggering these statistics are?  Nearly 20% of the world's population is starving and suffering from the negative effects of malnourishment.  16,000 children die DAILY as result of hunger.  Even in our country, with an economy that is ranked as high as number one [using the GDP (PPP)** ], 15% of our people struggle to feed themselves and their families; one-third of America's hungry are the children.  I will strive to present you with many other statistics, as well to link you with organizations that fight world hunger.  It is my hope that you will find a way you can fight world hunger, one person, one post, one action, one day at a time.

GDP (PPP)**--is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States.

WORLD HUNGER