How bad is hunger?
Statistics
How many people do you think are living in hunger around the World? 795 million people around the globe are living without enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. This means that 11.3% of Earth's population or every 1 in 9 people are living in hunger.
How does hunger affect people's health?
Vitamin deficiency is a common result of starvation, often leading to anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. These diseases collectively can also cause diarrhea, skin rashes, edema, and heart failure. This is why 45% of all deaths among children under the age of 5 are caused by hunger.
How will this effect our future generations?
Consider this. A family is living in hunger and they decide to have children. Now the parents and the kids are living in hunger. If the kids survive to adulthood, which most of them will not, then they have kids that also have to live in hunger. If this chain continues the number of people living in hunger will increase dramatically within the next few generations.
Is there a way to help?
There are many ways to help people and families living in hunger. To prevent future generations from having to live in hunger, generous people living with plenty of food and money could donate to organizations that visit countries with many people living in hunger to give them the donated food and money. Then the parents will have enough money to buy food for their children and for themselves. Another thing some organizations will do to help people living in hunger is that they'll find people with not enough money to buy food and they'll try to get them jobs. This way they can make their own money to buy food for their families and for themselves.
How can I donate?
There're many different organizations and each one has a different way that you can donate.
Here are a couple organizations that help people living in hunger.
http://www.stophungernow.org/
To donate to this organization just go to their homepage (link above) and click on the What You Can Do tab at the top of the screen. Then click on the ways to donate button. They have a variety of ways you can donate.
http://www.thp.org/
To donate to this organization just go to their homepage (link above) and click the Get Involved tab at the top of the screen. Then click on any of their different ways to donate or click the More Ways To Get Involved button for more options.
https://www.freedomfromhunger.org/
To donate to this organization just go to their homepage (link above) and click the Donate Now button at the top of the screen.