Mrs. Ranney-Poole

• Nearly ONE BILLION people around the world are chronically hungry
• 30,000 children die EVERY DAY of hunger or diseases resulting from hunger
• Nearly 200 million children in the world are malnourished
• The number of people who die from hunger every 3 1/2 days is the same number of people who died from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WWII
• The Indian subcontinent has nearly 1/2 the world's hungry people
• Africa and Asia have approximately 40% of the world's hungry people
• 36.3 million AMERICAN people live in households that experience hunger
• 1 in 10 households in the US is hungry
• 13 million children in the US go to bed hungry
• In the US 41.9% of African-American children and 40% of Latino children are chronically hungry
• 1 out of 4 seniors in the US has an inadequate diet
• Around the world the most vulnerable to hunger are children, pregnant and nursing women, single mothers, the elderly, the homeless, the unemployed, ethnic and racial minorities, and the working poor

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!