*It is estimated that one bilion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year.
*About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hungerrelated causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under age of five.
*Famine and wars cause about 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often. the majority of hunger deaaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families facing extreme poverty are simply unable to get enough food to eat.
*In 1999, a year marked by good economic news, 31 million Americans were food insecure, meaning either hungry or unsure of where their next meal would come from. Of these Americans, 12 million were children.
*Please remember to click every day to give help and hope to those with nowhere to turn. Every click counts in the life of a hungry person.