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Help
Stop Hunger!
Where
will your next meal come from?
This question haunts people in practically every corner of the world. If you are reading this, you probably aren't too worried about not having breakfast tomorrow morning, but there are millions who suffer every day with empty stomachs.
Every 6 seconds a child dies from malnutrition. 24,000 people die daily across the world from hunger and approximately 15,000 of them are children. The truth is, there IS enough food to keep the world nourished, but it is distributed so poorly that over 800 million people worldwide suffer from a lack of it. In fact, the world produces about 15% more food then it really needs. There still are some plagues and famines that cause hunger, but that only accounts for about 10% of the problem, and even this portion of the problem could be solved by food storage.
What
can you do?
- Click on The Hunger Site, where simply clicking a button can donate food to the hungry.
- Sponsor a hungry child through organizations like World Vision and Compassion International.
- Write your government's representatives in support of progressive hunger and poverty legislation. Here are directories for the US House of Representatives and the Senate.
- Through your church, sponsor a community-wide food drive for the poor.
- Support local efforts such as soup kitchens or Meals On Wheels.
- Get involved with a volunteer or professional organization that deals with hunger.
Where to learn more.
IOrganizations that
sponsor children:
Organizations for
political and social action to fight hunger
- The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
- Bread For The World
- Feed My Starving Children
- Write your local Representative or Senator about hunger issues.
Other relief
organizations:
Contact Judy...
Judy DeBoer
Inver Hills Community College
2500 80 Street East
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
judy@judyland.net
Phone: 651.450.8583
Fax: 651.450.8679