The Good News is that we are Winning at Achieving a Hunger Free World.

Not only is it true that a hunger free world is totally attainable, we are, right now in fact, gaining on it and well on the winning side of achieving it. Today, about 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. Today 10% of children in developing countries die before the age of five. This is down from 28% fifty years ago. All of this despite the increase in world population during this time.
(Statistics from the United Nations Hunger Project and CARE)

Here's a new thought for you ... If 24,000 people are dying today because of hunger, do you think 24,000 people could "Click to Feed a Hungry Child" here today at our World Legacy site? Yes. Easily. Are we winning? Yes.

What Will It Take to Completely Eliminate World Hunger?

In a one word answer - us. To break the inherited cycle of world poverty and bring our human population into balance with our world's economic, educational and social resources, it will take us addressing the extreme maldistribution of access to food resources now. There is enough excess food available, we can easily afford it, and the mechanics are in place to deliver it where it is needed. What is needed is for us to "get it". In other words for us to fully realize just how much the food we provide has the power to end the old legacy of worldwide inherited poverty, by enabling education, heatlh, opportunity, jobs and more. And then, all that remains is our effort to get organized around that realization. Never before in the history of our planet could it happen better or faster than now, through the power of the Internet.

Eliminating World Hunger Forever: The World Food Program

WFP is the front-line agency of the United Nations and the largest food program in the world. It is the receiving hand of your World Legacy click donations. WFP's Mission is to provide:

FOOD FOR LIFE to sustain victims of man-made and natural disasters;

FOOD FOR GROWTH to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives;

FOOD FOR EDUCATION to reward children attending school with food enough sustain their families, thus permiting a new secure beginning;

FOOD FOR WORK to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labor-intensive works programmes.

Last year, WFP helped feed more than 86 million people in 82 countries around the world. You may appreciate a few short side strips to learn more about the amazing work this organization is doing at this very moment:

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Maps and Current Info About World Hunger

This Week's Worldwide Emergencies which WFP is handling.

International Press this Week what's new in the press regarding WFP.

Current Disaster Vulnerable World Areas WFP World Map

More About WFP its mission and its accomplishments since its inception in 1963.

The United Nations has designated The Year 2000 - Culture of Peace Year. If you feel moved, please link over to read the six objectives of the manifesto and to sign this worldwide petition which will be presented in September to the United Nations Conference in New York City. These fine objectives include sharing our planets resources with others, respecting all life, and preserving the planet.

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Learn the Facts of Life and Death - The Hunger Quiz

Do you know what is causing the 24,000 plus deaths from starvation in our world occurring right now, on this day? Do you know that hunger afflicts one out of seven people on Earth, including the mighty industrialized United States of America? Do you know why the biggest obstacle to eradicating world hunger is our attitudes and basically our ignorance about it?

This 10 Question Interactive Quiz will surprise you! Illustrating the many myths about hunger, and showing that hunger can positively be eradicated in your lifetime!

Quotations

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I never take care of crowds, only of one person. If I stop to look at the crowds, I would never begin. --Mother Theresa

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

The first freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Hunger knows no friend, but its feeder. --Aristophanes, The Wasps

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few
who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle, Politics

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service, when it is violating all His laws.
-- John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jeffereson

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. --Samuel Johnston, 1770

A hungry man is not a free man. -- Adalai Stevenson, Speech, 1952

No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
-- Woodrow Wilson, Speech, 1912

The greatest of all evils, and the worst of all crime is poverty.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara Preface

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. – Adrienne Rich

The more humanity owes the poor man the more that society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to have it opened: and if he ever obtains justice it is with much more difficulty than others receive favors.
-- Jean Jacques Rosseau, A Discourse on Political Economy

Poverty demoralizes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wealth

There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet.
-- Zor Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks

There are only two families in the world my grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Havenots. -- Cervantes, Don Quixote

"The way people think about hunger is the greatest obstacle to ending it."
-- Peter Rosset, author of Hunger Myths, Director of Institute for Food and Development Policy, California, USA

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. . . . That is the secret. Start right now.
– Sister Chän Khöng


We the peoples of the United Nations determined . . . to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to promote social progress and better standards of life have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.
– Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations.

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