FACT: Hunger kills another child every 10 seconds.
Every day, nearly 8,000 kids under age 5 die because of hunger-related causes. Some starve. Some get sick — and their hungry bodies are just too weak to fight.
And that’s not the half of it. In all, more than 24,000 kids lose their lives each day, most of them to poverty, disease, and, yes . . . hunger.
The biggest tragedy? Almost all of these deaths are absolutely, 100% preventable.

FACT: More than 1 billion people go hungry every day.
There are more than 6 billion people on the planet. One in six will go to bed hungry tonight.
Why so many? For some families, the only food they have is whatever they can grow themselves. One drought or flood can wipe out a year’s harvest. When it does, there’s no supermarket or food bank they can turn to.
Others can barely afford food for their families, despite their best efforts. Either way, hunger is anything but yesterday’s problem. For 1 billion people, it’s a problem right now.

FACT: Hunger traps people in poverty.
The poor spend most of their money just trying not to starve.
Imagine you earn $1.25 a day — or less. How are you going to feed your family AND pay the rent, school fees, medical bills, and so on? Now imagine the price of bread has doubled.
What will you cut back on? Will you pull your kids out of school so you can afford to buy food for them? Will you risk your health by going from two meals a day to just one? How will you ever escape poverty if you can’t get enough to eat?
Around 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and these are the impossible questions they face every day.

FACT: Hunger hurts children.
Even if it doesn’t kill, hunger can have lasting effects on a child’s well-being.
Hunger starves the brain. Malnourished kids often miss school, or do poorly, because they’re unable to concentrate. Without good nutrition, a child’s heart literally shrinks. Their immune system weakens, leaving them more vulnerable to disease.
Kids who are even moderately underweight are four times more likely to die from disease. In other words,145 million hungry children — 1 in 3 kids in developing countries — are at risk of dying.

FACT: We can stop hunger in its tracks.
There’s enough food in the world. There are enough resources and know-how. There are enough of us who can raise our voices to fight hunger.
The question is: Will we?
Every year, World Vision distributes enough emergency food to fill 8,000 semi-trucks. We help families grow more of their own food and store it longer. We defend the rights of the poor to those in power and challenge global leaders to tackle the causes of hunger.
But we can’t do all this without you. That’s why we’re asking you to go without — so others can eat.