Stop
Hunger Now is an organization that has become very important to
me. Headquartered in the 3rd floor of my church, Fairmont
United Methodist, SHN is fulfilling an incredibly important
mission of feeding the world's hungriest people and educating
Americans about just how dire this problem is.
I
volunteer once or twice a month as a volunteer leader, running
Operation Sharehouse, the latest project of SHN. Operation
Sharehouse is a program that allows volunteer groups to come
into the North Raleigh Warehouse and actually create meals that
are packaged and shipped around the world to people in
need. It's a very innovative, fun volunteer opportunity,
requiring little effort, available for anyone age 5 and up.
Watch
the below video
or visit
the website to learn more about the "Funnel Project"
as I like to call it.
Hunger
Facts
In
developing countries, 91 children out
of 1,000 die before their fifth
birthday. By comparison, in the United
States 8 children in 1,000 will die
before turning five years old.
Source: State
of the World's Children 2000. UNICEF.
More
than 800 million people in the world
are malnourished.
Source: Food
Insecurity in the World 2001. Food and
Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations.
The
world produces enough food to feed
everyone. World agriculture produces
17 percent more calories per person
today than it did 30 years ago,
despite a 70 percent population
increase. This is enough to provide
everyone in the world with at least
2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person
per day). The principal problem is
that many people in the world do not
have sufficient land to grow, or
income to purchase, enough food.
Source: Food
and Agriculture Organization 2002, FAO
1998
There
are 1.2 billion poor people in
developing countries who live on $1 a
day or less. Of these, 780 million
suffer from chronic hunger, which
means that their daily intake of
calories is insufficient for them to
lead active and healthy lives.
Source: Food
and Agriculture Organization 2002, FAO
1998
Protein-energy
malnutrition (PEM) affects every
fourth child worldwide: 150 million
(26.7%) are underweight while 182
million (32.5%) are stunted.
Geographically, more than 70 percent
of PEM children live in Asia, 26
percent in Africa and 4 percent in
Latin America and the Caribbean. Their
plight may well have begun even before
birth with a malnourished mother.
Source: World
Health Organization 2002
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