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This Starving World
Food is one of the most basic necessities of life. Yet more than 1.8 billion people are undernourished, 400 million
of which are on the verge of starvation. Poor agricultural techniques such as slash-and-burn hurt production yields as well
as the environment. Natural disasters such as floods and drought can destroy crops, leaving families virtually without food.
War and conflict has the same effect, devastating countries, tearing families apart, destroying crops and bringing the food
chain to a halt, and yet the silence, from many people in this world, is deafening. They find it uncomfortable to look at
images of the starving and generally avert their eyes. It's time to stare this issue right in the face and say no, no to allowing
hundreds of millions to starve. It's not just in places like Africa, India, Bangladesh, and now Iraq, there is hunger right
on your own door step, if you have eyes and the senses to see. Many children in so-called civilised countries go to school
hungry, and this is not the ideal environment for concentrating on learning. Get in touch with your local church or other
organisations and see what you can do to help. , and use the provided links here to further educate yourself, you might be
surprised what you can do to help.
Hunger can be defined as the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot
afford to meet that most basic of need, food. There are millions of children around the world who will miss out
on their childhood because of poverty and hunger.
Hunger comes in in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with
chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility
to illness. The point we need to make at this point is, poverty and hunger don't just happen in Africa, India and anywhere
"over there". It's right on your doorstep.
Answer the call from those voices out there and reach out a hand.
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join with others who are working
to change policies—
to meet basic human needs
and address the underlying
causes of hunger—together
a lesson the world will
never forget
information for change
why are people hungry?
Serving the information needs
of the humanitarian relief community
Every single day around
25,000 people die because they do
not have enough food to
eat or through some other
hunger-related cause.
However, thorough some
intervention from the wealthy
West this is less than the
35,000 10 years ago and
the 40,000 20 years ago.
Sadly 75% of all these deaths
are children under five years old.
Effective action to
end world hunger
helping the innocent victims
of war
Alleviating the physical and
spiritual suffering of the poor
through relief and development
programs, hope and opportunity.
innovative solutions to
hunger and poverty
churches helping churches
help the hurting
helping over 85 million
people in their struggle
against poverty,
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