DUANE STEPSON - GHETTO PAIN FACTS AND STATISTICS OF HUNGER
1. At least ¾ of a billion people suffer from some form of malnutrition.
2. About 50,000 people die each day as a result of malnutrition.
3. 800 million people know what it is like to go to bed hungry.
4. About 200 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.
5. Millions of children die each year from the diseases of poverty: parasites and infectious diseases such as whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, and malaria, with accompanying diarrhea, which interact with poor nutrition in a vicious cycle.
6. One child dies of these causes every two seconds
7. 15 children have died in the 30 seconds it took to read these statistics
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