Just as a reminder that this Sunday is World Hunger Sunday - which means that all proceeds given will go toward World Hunger and 100% given goes to end hunger! Here are some facts you should know about World Hunger and these should break your heart! WORLD HUNGER STATISTICS 1.02 billion people in the world do not have enough to eat. This means one sixth of humanity is undernourished. (FAO, 2009) Hunger and malnutrition are still the number one risks to health worldwide. (World Food Programme) Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes - that’s one child every 5 seconds. (Bread for the World) In 2008, nearly 3 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday due directly or indirectly to hunger and malnutrition. (Bread for the World) It is estimated that 684,000 child deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc. (World Food Programme, 2007) DOMESTIC HUNGER STATISTICS 49 million Americans struggle with hunger, including 17 million children. That means 1 in 6 people do not get enough food to be healthy. An estimated 35% of poor families in the U.S. are forced to choose between buying food and paying their rent or mortgage. Nearly half of all families headed by a single mother are food insecure. In our nation’s cities, 1 in every 4 people in a soup kitchen line is a child. The cost of a meal at a Southern Baptist hunger ministry averages 30 cents per meal. WORLD HUNGER FUND GIVING STATISTICS 100% of all contributions to feed hungry people. (Personnel are already in place; thus, administrative and promotional costs are borne out of other budgets.) In 2011, Southern Baptist hunger ministries fed more than 5 million meals to the hungry in North America. As a result, more than 33,000 professions of faith were reported. Southern Baptists’ gifts for world hunger provided for projects in more than 68 countries in 2008.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 22:02:37 +0000
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