Global Food Crisis/Compassion International
A couple months back I heard about Compassion International via a Christian radio station I listen to and I was led to sponsor a child. My child is Lisa, a 6 year old from Indonesia.
Recently I received a magazine that Compassion publishes and I read an article about a couple of individuals stories of famine in Ethiopia. It's just ridiculous that some of these people can barely have one meal (if you can call it that) per day if they're lucky. It makes me wish I was born an heiress to some millionaire so I can give most of that money to those starving people that need it!
(From the Hunger Fact Sheet):
• One person in seven goes to bed hungry every day.
• Approximately 854 million people across the world are hungry.
• Every day, nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That amounts to one child
every 5 seconds.
• About 5.6 million or 53 percent of child deaths worldwide are related to under-nutrition.
• Approximately 146 million or 27 percent of children under age 5 in developing countries are
underweight.
• Nearly 17 percent of babies in developing countries are born with a low birth weight
compared with only 7 percent of babies in industrialized countries.
• More than 6 million children die from malnutrition each year.
• Worldwide, 161 million preschool children suffer chronic malnutrition.
• Already 40 percent to 50 percent of the world’s populations are undernourished and there
are 50 million starvation-related deaths each year.
Sources: www.one.org, www.bread.org, www.unicef.org, www.who.int, www.unep.org
And all it takes is $13 to help a child for ONE month! So, please, if you are led to do so donate to help this crisis or even sponsor a child! All the info can be found HERE
Thank you and God Bless! ♥