Each day 800 million people go hungry. Among them are 170 million children under 5 years of age.

How can we help? What can we do?
Each day 800 million people go hungry. Among them are 170 million children under 5 years of age.

Isn’t it a human tragedy?

How can we help? What can we do?
20% of the world’s population lives on the equivalent of less than USD 1 a day.

Fully half of the human race earns less than USD 2 a day

The income of the richest 1% of our planet equals that of the poorest 57%

One-third of preschool children in developing countries are malnourished.

Malnutrition among preschool children
- impairs their mental and physical development.
- compromises their future health, productivity, and food security.
- Undermines economic growth and social justice.

Malnutrition
- is a factor in more than 5 million deaths of children under five.

- accounts for 20-25% of the economic impact of childhood diseases in developing world.

- reduces gross domestic product by 0.7% annually in India and 0.5% in China

Access to basic services for everyone would cost approximately $US40 billion more per year than is spent now. This is 0.1% of world income.

World military spending is $US780 billion per year.
World military spending is $US780 billion per year.

US billion is spent on cigarettes in Europe every year.

The amount of money the UK spends on chocolate each year could make Africa not live in poverty.

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