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Global Hunger Crisis | Vitacereal(TM) | Girls' Education | School Meals | Focus on Women | Food Aid and HIV/AIDS | Hunger Facts
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Hunger and undernutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide, killing more people every year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. How real is the problem of hunger?
Consider that:
- The world has produced more than enough food to feed itself since the 1960s.
- Yet, around the world, over 850 million people are chronically hungry.
- That means one out of every seven people on earth goes hungry.
- There are 400 million hungry children in the world.
- That’s more hungry children than the population of the United States.
- Every four seconds, someone, somewhere, dies because of hunger.
- Every day, 25,000 people die because of hunger; 18,000 of them are children.
- Every year, over 9 million people die from hunger and malnutrition.
- More than 9 out of 10 hungry people die in situations not heard on the news.
Despite the magnitude of this tragic situation, hunger is a solvable problem. Hunger can, in fact, be eradicated. With your help, the World Food Program can help get food to those who need it most.
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