Hungry World - Poverty

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About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. Yet there... More Details

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.
Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.
There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

Next are listed many major international organizations that have related information about poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases. Together, these organizations comprise hundreds of thousands of men and women all over the earth. Many of these individuals work long hours in the fight against poverty, often in sparse or dangerous conditions.
      
Severn makes a very good point in that adults are always on the case of children to keep their environment clean and in order while they are inheriting a world from us that is becoming more of a mess each day. Is it not the responsibility of every adult on earth to do their part in assuring that the environment we leave to our children is safe and in proper order? As Severn says, children are always instructed to work out their differences and not to fight, yet trillions of dollars are spent on killing each other. If we can sit down and work out our differences this money could be spent on programs to fix rather than destroy our environment and problems, such as world hunger, could easily be solved.
                  The present generation has a very bad track record when it comes to doing what is right. The bottom line (economical profit) has been seen as more important that preserving our planet as a safe place for all to live. Millions starve while others throw away food. It is young people like you that renew my hope in mankind. It is no longer an option, it is now necessary that your generation accomplish what previous generations have failed to do. Keep up the good work and please do not forget what is important when you take on the responsibilities of adult life.
         We need to keep up the fight. If only we could encourage the youth to keep their high ideals into adulthood. How much things change when your thoughts go from saving the world to paying your mortgage. If we all don’t do our part, soon paying a mortgage won’t be an option, because there will be no safe place to live on this planet

Action Against Hunger

ADRA International
Africare
American Jewish World Service
American Red Cross
AmeriCares
Australian Overseas Aid Program (AUSAID)
Austrian Development Cooperation
Baptist World Aid
Belgian Development Cooperation
Bread for the World
Canadian International Development Organization (CIDA)
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Christian Children's Fund
DATA
Denmark Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food for the Hungry
French Agency for Development (CFD)
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Global AIDS Alliance
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Grameen
Greece Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Habitat for Humanity
Heifer International
The Hunger Project
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Medical Corps
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Rescue Committee
Irish Aid Department of Foreign Affairs
Islamic Relief
Italian Directorate General for Development Cooperation
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Lutheran World Relief
Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation
Make Poverty History
MAP International
Measles Initiative
Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
Mercy Corps
Millennium Project
Muslim Aid
Netherlands Development Cooperation
New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency (NZAID)
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Oxfam
Peace Corps
Portuguese Institute for Development Support
Project HOPE
Rehydration Project
Save the Children
Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)
Stop TB Partnership
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
UNICEF
United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)
United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
World Bank
World Concern
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Vision


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