"A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food."
-- Pearl S. Buck
"We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry."
-- Jimmy Carter
"The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation."
-- John F. Kennedy
"When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is food."
-- Desmond Tutu
"The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world."
-- Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet.jpg)
"Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
“Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.”
"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.,
"Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice."
-- Jacques Diouf, Food and Agricultural Organization Director-general
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
-- Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Hunger is a political condition.
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger."
-- Buzz Aldrin
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
-- Saint Augustine
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
So you begin…I began. I picked up one person — Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person I wouldn't have picked up 42,000. Just begin…one, one, one.
-- Mother Teresa
“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Hélder Câmara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Hélder Câmara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
"For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating."
Hunger Facts
- In 2009, it was estimated that more than 1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined. That means one in nearly six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life.
Source: World Food Programme, 2010. - Out of the 1.02 billion who are hungry, more than 907 million of them live in developing countries.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. - 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes.
Source: FAO, 2009. , Poverty.com - In 2007, the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million, primarily due to the increase in food prices.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. - Asia and the Pacific region are home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. - More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. - There are about 1 billion people in the world living on less than $1 a day. Roughly 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 per day -which is40% of the world’s population. Almost half the world – over 3 billion people - lives on less than $2.50.
Source: Global Issues, 2010. - Malnutritionremains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child mortality, more than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined.
Source: USAID, 2009. - 1 out of 4 children – around 146 million - in developing countries are malnourished.
Source: World Food Programme. - Undernutrition contributes to more than one-half of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes.
Source: World Food Programme. - 60% of the 10.9 million child deaths in developing countries are related to hunger and/or malnutrition.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009. - 1 in 7 people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight.
Source: World Food Programme, 2009.
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