Thursday, June 18, 2009

Starvation.

Although we are very blessed living in Singapore.
There are many people out there in this world affected by world hunger.
This is because they live in poverty, and do not have the money to buy food.
Here are some of the facts that I've gotten about world hunger.
  • In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
  • Every year 15 million children die of hunger
  • For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
  • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
  • The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
  • Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
  • About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
World hunger is rooted to poverty. It is hard to make meaningful long-term alleviation of poverty, however we could start small and slowly improve if each and everyone of us do our part. It is not impossible to achieve it.
Anyway, by looking at the videos below. I hope that everyone could realise how blessed they are, we should count our blessings and be thankful for what we have.
There are people out there in far worse conditions than us.
We should instead do our part to help them, however small is it.
It could be in the form of donation or even by spreading the message.
Do your part people and may god bless you.



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