Hunger
GLOBAL HUNGER
- 925 million people do not have enough to eat – more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
(Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010) - 98 percent of the world’s hungry live in developing countries;
(Source: FAO news release, 2010) - Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
- (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
- Women make up a little over half of the world’s population, but they account for over 60 percent of the world’s hungry.
(Source: Strengthening efforts to eradicate hunger…, ECOSOC, 2007) - 65 percent of the world’s hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
(Source: FAO news release, 2010)
CHILD HUNGER
- More than 70 percent of the world’s 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
(Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006) - 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
(Source: The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF, 2007) - The cost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated at US$20-30 billion per annum;
(Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006) - One out of four children – roughly 146 million – in developing countries are underweight;
(Source: The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF, 2007) - Every year WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding programmes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 million children.
(Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)
UNICEF….CEO….CARYL M. STERN….SALARY $420,000 A YEAR
AMERICAN RED CROSS….CEO…GAIL J. McGOVERN…SALARY $447,000 A YEAR
UNITED WAY…CEO…BRIAN A. GALLAGHER…SALARY $983,000
All of these people make more than the most powerful man in the world…President Obama. Hell…Galllagher makes three times more than the President.
How can they defend these kinds of salaries? I agree with you…hunger is bad…but how many hungry people could be fed if these people did not have such extreme salaries? Look how much more money could be used to feed the poor!
It’s just more of the same old thing…people taking advantage of those in need. It makes me sad.
Note: You can hate me all you want…but I speak my mind and I agree with you more than you give me credit for. heart.
Thank you for highlighting this issue. You often remind us things we forget.
Sorry for the thread jacking on a blog about HUNGER. Sorry. :love:
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Very good blog man. We need to keep this sort of thing in the spotlight.
What is the difference between redistributing wealth and sharing the wealth? Isn’t that same thing by another name? The trickle down theory does not work. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and there are more starving people in the world than ever before. It is not just about food. It is also about birth control and education of developing countries women. This is what brings down populations and increases availability of food in the world. But they need money to do that. It looks to me that the rich western governments want the people of developing countries to die.