FACTS ABOUT WORLD HUNGER
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes.
Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.
Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five.
Famine and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be the ones you hear about most often.
The majority of hunger deaths are caused by chronic malnutrition. Families simply cannot get enough to eat. This in turn is caused by
extreme poverty.
Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease.
It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were some way we could help fight
world hunger? Wouldn't it be great if we could raise funds to fight
hunger while surfing the web? Wouldn't it be great if there were a web
site that would donate food every time we visited it?
Well, there is!! It's called The Hunger Site http://www.thehungersite.com, and every time a person visits there and clicks the Donate Free Food Button, money is donated to the United Nations' World Food Program. It doesn't cost you a cent; the donations are made by the sponsors of The Hunger Site. Please pay it a visit.
Every time you visit http://www.thehungersite.com and click the button, you feed a few hungry people, so please bookmark this site and visit it every day. Better yet, make the Hunger Site the start page of your web browser and you won't forget. It does no additional
good to visit more than once per day, so sitting at your computer hitting your browser's "back" button for hours on end will not benefit the hungry of the world.
Instead of buying someone a gift, you could sponsor the Hunger Site for a day as a gift to someone who is concerned about feeding the poor. Or perhaps the company you own or work for can do this. It may cost hundreds of dollars, depending on the amount of traffic at the web site on any given day. It would make a wonderful and thoughtful gift for a caring person (or persons) you know.Thanks for your time!
:-)
Ruth
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