The Dismal Facts About
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Hunger Facts

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.

Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five. This is down from 28% fifty years ago.

Famine and wars cause just 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 simply cannot get enough to eat. This in turn is caused by extreme poverty.

Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease. Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level.

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.

Often it takes just a few simple resources for impoverished people to be able to grow enough food to become self-sufficient. These resources include quality seeds, appropriate tools, and access to water. Small improvements in farming techniques and food storage methods are also helpful.

Many hunger experts believe that ultimately the best way to reduce hunger is through education. Educated people are best able to break out of the cycle of poverty that causes hunger.

How you can help

Shop Online and Help Fight Hunger!
You can help fight hunger by doing all your online shopping via Hunger Site's Shopping Village. Up to 15% of your purchases at the 80+ online retailers benefit the United Nations World Food Programme. This doesn't cost you anything extra -- it's all paid for by the retailers.


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Make The Hunger Site your home page and visit daily.
Click here for instructions on how to make The Hunger Site your home page. This is the best way to ensure that the donations will continue to go to the world's hungry. If everyone were to remember to do this every day, this would be great!

Tell your friends and family about The Hunger Site.
By spreading the word, you'll help increase the number of people visiting The Hunger Site and thus increase the number of donations. Word of mouth - especially in your own voice - is the best way to let people know about The Hunger Site.

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About GreaterGood.com
www.greatergood.com

Based in Seattle, WA USA, GreaterGood.com (www.greatergood.com) is the premier hub for doing good on the Internet, providing consumers the ability to make a difference in the world through their everyday Web-based activities ? at no extra cost. Visitors to GreaterGood.com's award-winning Web site can benefit their favorite cause by shopping at more than 100 brand-name retailers, "clicking to donate" to help feed the hungry, and making direct online donations to their favorite charities. Every time users start their shopping at GreaterGood.com, up to 15 percent of each purchase automatically benefits the cause of their choice. GreaterGood.com's partnerships with more than 2,500 not-for-profit organizations, K-12 schools, colleges and universities throughout the country enable consumers to choose from local, national and international organizations benefiting children, young adults, the environment, animals, medical research, the arts, and more. The company's online enrollment program enables U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profits of any size, and registered as a charity in the United States, to participate in its innovative fund-raising programs by signing up online at www.GreaterGood.com. International charities that have operations in the U.S. and are registered with the IRS are also encouraged to join the GreaterGood.com program.

About the United Nations World Food Program
http://www.wfp.org

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the frontline United Nations organization fighting to eradicate world hunger -- whether it is the hunger that suddenly afflicts people fleeing ethnic conflict in Rwanda or Bosnia or the chronic hunger that affects the hungry poor in countries such as Bangladesh or India. WFP became operational in 1963 and is now the world's largest international food aid organization. Last year WFP helped feed 86 million people including more than half of the world's refugees and internally displaced people. WFP has emergency and development projects in 82 countries worldwide and a staff of more than 5,000.

Please visit TheHungerSite.com for lots more of information about hunger and what you can do to help. This page has statistics, links, and, e-mail addresses, everything. Please take a minute to look through it.

The Hunger Site has been donating food since June 1, 1999
In that time, it has donated over 15 MILLION pounds of food to the hungry.
You CAN help. Take two seconds to click the donate free food button and help feed the hungry.


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