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- Currently, the Horn of Africa is in a dreadful food crisis, which the U.N. estimates 2.5 billion dollars are needed for the humanitarian response.
- The Kenya Dekadal Food Security Monitoring revealed that 3.75 million people are presently food insecure due to long rain season
- Every 3.6 someone in the world dies due to starvation, 75% of them are children
- 43% of African -American children are chronically hungry
- “For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years” (World Hunger 1).
- There are currently about 3 billion people in the world right now struggling to survive with just two daily U.S. dollars
- 183 million children are underweight for their age
- “To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion”- which is equivalent to “what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year” (World Hunger 1).
- Cause of death of fifteen million children every year
- Half of the world's hungry population is in the Indian subcontinent
- 40% of the world's starving population is Africa and Asia
