From Hunger to Hope
October 16, 2007
World Hunger Relief Week is a global movement to stop world hunger. Through awareness, volunteerism and fundraising, more than 1,000,000 employees, franchisees, and vendors of Yum! Brands, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants in 100+ countries will join forces to bring awareness and action to this global crisis.
Hunger kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The World Food Programme is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger, feeding on average 90 million of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people in 80 countries each year. WFP provides food and resources to build self-sustaining communities in the most impoverished and disadvantaged corners of the world.
World hunger facts
Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006854 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006820 million people in developing countries alone are hungry - one in four lives in sub-Saharan Africa
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006In the 1990s, global poverty dropped by 20 percent. The number of hungry people increased by 18 million
Source: Food as Aid: Trends, Needs and Challenges in the 21st Century524 million of the world’s hungry live in South Asia - more than the populations of Australia and USA
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006The number of chronically hungry people worldwide is growing by an average of four million per year at current trends
Source: FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006
Visit the website From Hunger to Hope for more details on how you can help.
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