Hunger Facts

• -Every five seconds a child dies of hunger.
• 15,000 children die every day of hunger or diseases related to malnutrition. The majority of these children who die live in Sub-Saharan Africa, in countries like Uganda.
• A third of Sub-Saharan Africa’s population, nearly 200 million people, will go to bed hungry tonight.
• In the United States, one child out of 165 will die before the age of five. In Sub-Saharan Africa, one out of six will die before their first birthday.
• 80% of African families live on less than $2 a day.
• In the United States we waste about 3,044 pounds of food every second of the day.
• For the cost of super-sizing your hamburger meal, “Pennies for Posho” can feed a hungry child in Africa for two days.