there's a Global Food Crisis. made worse by our nation's dependence on fuel. and even worse by our decision to use the the food that many nations rely on to fuel our cars.
a few facts (from the Compassion website):
• One person in seven goes to bed hungry every day.
• Approximately 854 million people across the world are hungry.
• Every day, nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That amounts to one child
every 5 seconds.
• About 5.6 million or 53 percent of child deaths worldwide are related to under-nutrition.
• Approximately 146 million or 27 percent of children under age 5 in developing countries are
underweight.
• Nearly 17 percent of babies in developing countries are born with a low birth weight
compared with only 7 percent of babies in industrialized countries.
• More than 6 million children die from malnutrition each year.
• Worldwide, 161 million preschool children suffer chronic malnutrition.
• Already 40 percent to 50 percent of the world’s populations are undernourished and there
are 50 million starvation-related deaths each year.
Sources: www.one.org, www.bread.org, www.unicef.org, www.who.int, www.unep.org
Compassion is doing something to help. and you can be a part of it...here. for $13 you can feed a child for a month. you can even buy a t-shirt with "please" in the language of one of four countries hit hardest by the crisis. sure to be a conversation starter.
and if you still haven't sponsored a child, now's a perfect time. you can do that here, or use the widget to the right.
1 comment:
I've never been turkey hunting but it can't be that hard, right? Oh man, that would be so much fun for us to go hunting together! We have to get some pink camoflauge.
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