Hunger

Hunger

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP)/United Colors of Benetton, 2003.

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Over 800 million people live with hunger; it kills an estimated 25,000 of them every day. That’s 1 person every 3.5 seconds, adding to the 400 million who have died from hunger in the last 50 years (the equivalent of the combined populations of the USA, Germany and France). Meaning 1 child dies somewhere in the world every 5 seconds, during which time nearly 12 tonnes of food is wasted. Of these 800 million, some 60 million people are facing starvation around the world; the acutely hungry who will die without emergency food aid. The rest are poor. Trapped in poverty, their lives controlled by the search for the next meal, they never make it onto our TV screens. Behind the figures are people like Masoud (cover), for whom aid projects, like the United Nations World Food Programme’s, are about more than just food. They give people the chance to break the cycle of daily deprivation, by encouraging education, self-sufficiency and stability, by helping refugees return home or by giving children the chance to escape exploitation. It will take you about half an hour to read the stories of people like Masoud, Agnes, Kadiatu and Khaliq. By the time you’ve finished, hunger will have killed over 500 people.

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