The UN estimates that nearly one billion people, located predominantly in developing countries, suffer from malnutrition while nearly 25,000 people die EVERY DAY from STARVATION.

SITUATION

Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition caused by an improper or insufficient diet.  Its effects are easily seen in stunted physical development, mental incapacity, starvation, and a general weakening of the body and immune system making an individucal more susceptible to injury or death through what could be a relatively minor sickness or infection. Not surprisingly, malnutrition is directly and inexorably linked to global poverty, though it certainly exists within specific demographics of developed countries.

STATISTICS

The single leading cause of death in children of developing countries is protein-energy malnutrition, or the simple lack of calories, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.  Now consider the following: a 2004 study by the University of Arizona suggests that a shocking 40 to 50 percent of all food ready for harvest in the United States never gets eaten!  Households waste on average 14 percent of their food purchases!  Nationwide, that wasted food amounts to $43 billion per year!!!

How is it possible that nearly 1/6 of the world's population is malnourished when the global community produces, consumes, and wastes far more food than it actually needs???  Help make starvation a thing of the past.  Hunger for change.

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