World Hunger Facts 

• 854 million people in the world are hungry.
  "State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006." UN Food and Agriculture Organization
• 1 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day.
  "World Development Indicators 2007." The World Bank.
• 27 percent of children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight in the developing world.
  "State of the World's Children 2007."UNICEF.
• Nearly one in three people die prematurely or have disabilities due to poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies.
  "Malnutrition." World Health Organization (WHO)
• One in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide.
  UN World Food Programme

The Cost to End World Hunger 

It's less than 1%

Make Free Donations to End World Hunger 

What if you could help end world hunger without spending any money or even leaving your house? Would you do it? If the answer if yes, then bookmark The Hunger Site.com and visit every day.

With a single click of the mouse, you can provide food for hungry people in the U.S. and around the world.

It's a simple way to make a big difference. So far, visitors to the site have helped provide more than 300 million cups of food to people around the world - all at no cost to the web visitors who click every day. Donations are paid for by advertisers who purchase small banner ads on the site, and 100% of the advertising fees go to nonprofit organizations working to end hunger. Currently, The Hunger Site's charitable partners are Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest.

Funds are split between these organizations and go to the aid of hungry people in over 74 countries, including those in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.

So make a difference in the life of a hungry child or adult. Visit TheHungerSite.com and make your free donation.

Improve Your Vocabulary and End Global Hunger - for Free! 

Visit FreeRice.com to Make Free Donations

FreeRice.com is a wonderful new site that can help end global hunger. Launched in October 2007, FreeRice.com is reminiscent of TheHungerSite in its ease of use and wonderful ability to impact the world. Like The Hunger Site, it allows you to make free advertiser-supported donations to the World Food Programme. All you have to do is sharpen your vocabulary.

The site asks users to play a multiple-choice word game to generate donations. For each word you get right, FreeRice.com will donate the equivalent of 10 grains of rice. The site shows you a word and then asks you to choose a synonym from a list of four others. The more you get right, the harder it gets.

In its first month, the site has already raised over 1 billion grains of rice for the UN World Food Programme. So surf on over to FreeRice.com, sharpen your vocabulary, and do a world of good for the hungry.

Help End World Hunger for $1 

One Million Dollar PayPal Challenge to Support World Food Programme

Hunger Education Links 

Great sites to learn more and make a difference

• Food Force Game
  A video game developed by the UN World Food Programme to teach kids about world hunger. A great teaching tool!
• Second Harvest - Learn About Hunger
  Learn about hunger in the United States.
• Bread for the World - Hunger Facts
  Get international poverty and hunger statistics.
• Food First - 12 Myths About Hunger
  See a list of hunger myths.
• World Food Programme - What is Hunger?"
  UN World Food Programme provides a glossary of hunger terms and definitions.
• Women and Food Crisis - ActionAid USA

World Hunger Video 

Organizations that Want to End World Hunger 

Nonprofits dedicated to ending world hunger

• UN World Food Programme
• Action Against Hunger
• The Hunger Project
• ECHO
• Oxfam America
• World Hunger Year
• Trees for Life
• Heifer International
• Stop Hunger Now

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Books on Hunger and Poverty 

Material World: A Global Family Portrait

by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann

Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 08/20/2008)

World Hunger: Twelve Myths

by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, Luis Esparza

Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 08/20/2008)

Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

by Muhammad Yunus

Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 08/20/2008)

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

by David Bornstein

Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 08/20/2008)

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

by Jeffrey Sachs

Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 08/20/2008)

UN World Food Programme News 

Hunger news from the WFP

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Hunger News from Reuters AlertNet 

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Free Snowglobes Feed the Hungry 

Pepsi's Efforts to Raise Money for Second Harvest

During the 2007 holiday season, Pepsi shared the spirit of the season by pledging to donate up to $50,000 to Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network for each virtual snowglobe created at Pepsi Snow Globe.com. Users were able to upload a photo, add in a few optional Christmas elements, and then shake the globe to watch it snow!

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