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Youth Against Poverty [Virginia Chapter]

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About Me

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Read
every 5 seconds, one child will die from hunger. scary? yes. a lie, unfortunately not. a two man team (so far) consisting of a high school and college student is working to change the world and do something about this devestating issue that is affecting so many people all over the world. a benefit concert in march brought us $800 more to end world hunger!! with the help of the community, we can prove to the world that a few people can make a difference and get the word out about what's going on around the globe! all money raised goes straight to the World Vision Organization.For more information on how you can help, visit http://www.worldvision.org or http://www.youthagainstpoverty.org.
On Saturday, March 24th, Youth Against Poverty- Virginia Chapter- held its first benefit concert. With the help and support of the community, we raised $800 to start ending World Hunger! :)
Together we CAN defeat poverty!
Youth Against Poverty is a organization focused on spreading awareness of child poverty.

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Hunger facts:

852 million people across the world are hungry, up from 842 million a year ago.

Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.

In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food.

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.

In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.

Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death

About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.

The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

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.

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