854 million people across the world are hungry
Hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, families cannot even provide their most basic needs like food and water.
The world produces enough food to feed every person 17% more than he or she needs a day
Unfortunately, still, 1/6th (18%) of the population live under the poverty line making less than $1 a day (thats more than a billion people)
53% of the global population lives under 2$ a day.
Every second, a person dies of hunger or hunger related illnesses
75% of those people are children, That's 16,000 children a day.
In 2005, 10.1 million children died before their fifth birthday
This problem, contrary to popular belief, is not solely an African and Middle Eastern problem. In the US, 1 in 8 children under 12 goes to bed hungry.
For the price of a missile, an entire school of children could eat for a whole year
It would cost approximately 19 billion dollars to end the world hunger crises, thats roughly the amount the US spends in a year on ice cream alone.
And why, might I ask, does the western world need so much ice cream, when we could be saving ourselves from our own rising obesity epidemic which is equally as harmful to one's health, solving our own poverty problem, and saving the fragile lives of those who are already overwhelmed by the devastating effects of poverty?
The point of this myspace, is not, infact, to stop you from buying cet ice cream, but rather to expose the pandemic that is World Hunger and act against it.
World Hunger is Stoppable, but it takes a world to stop it!
