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Nazareth Children’s Home in Masaka, Uganda, was founded by Ms. Josephine Nazareth Namakula, born in 1938, & herself orphaned at the age of 5 months & raised by nuns for 16 years. After she acquired her own home, Ms. Namakula turned the home into an orphanage in 1976, & has devoted her life to the well-being & care of unwanted & discarded children.
The Nazareth Children’s Home currently houses & provides for 23 children with little-to-no outside financial support. Ms. Namakula turns away no child, & this number continues to increase. Children are often brought to the home, found abandoned on the streets by their parents, or worse. The latest addition to the Nazareth Children’s Home is an infant named Joseph, who was found in a trash bin, & whose life was saved by Ms. Namakula’s loving heart & open doors.
These children deserve a better life. They deserve a chance, & they deserve basic needs that are well within our means...
It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the 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 deaths 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 they were either hungry or unsure of where their next meal would come from. Of these Americans, 12 million were children.
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FACTS ON HUNGER:
-854 million people across the world are hungry, up from 852 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.
-Hunger manifests itself 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.
-Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are luckier than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the world.
If you have money in the bank, in your purse or spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. - Anonymous