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Make Worldwide Hunger a Priority

Target: President Obama
Sponsored by: Freedom from Hunger

More than 16,000 children die every day from hunger-related causes. Yet, few of these deaths are due to outright starvation. Instead, children who are "only" mildly or moderately undernourished suffer from immune systems that are unable to fight common illnesses that we could easily overcome.

With the surging food prices and food shortages of the global hunger crisis, even more children and families are facing serious food insecurity.

What can you do when the causes of poverty are complex and the effects so daunting? One of the answers is to invest education and resources into women.

Women are the primary caretakers of children under the age of five -- the ones most vulnerable to the ravages of chronic hunger and malnutrition. Also, research confirms that mothers tend to use new income and resources for the benefit of their children. By giving women the powerful resources of credit and knowledge, you affect the nutrition, health and education of an entire household.

So send a message to the President of the United States -- make eradicating hunger a priority and invest in programs that help women help themselves and their families.

deadline: 9-29-2009
goal: 10,000

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Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. Few of these deaths are due to outright starvation, but rather to common illnesses (like diarrhea, acute respiratory illness, malaria and measles) that move in on vulnerable children whose bodies have been weakened by hunger.

The scope of the problem is immense with an estimated 815 million undernourished people in the developing world, consuming less than the minimum amount of calories essential for sound health and growth. And with the surge in food prices over the past few years, the number of children and families living with serious food insecurity is dramatically rising.

It's been said that the era of cheap food is over, and that high food prices will remain with us for at least another 15 years. That makes it all the more imperative to deal with root causes of hunger.

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9:12 pm PDT, Sep 12, Anna White, Connecticut
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." --Etienne de Grellet

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2:11 pm PDT, Sep 11, Name not displayed, Kansas
Some of the starving children may grow up to be important people in the world. By not helping with the worldwide hunger, they starve and we just don't give them a chance to prove themselves worthy.

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6:36 pm PDT, Sep 6, Connie Gadt, Missouri
How can hunger not be a priority-no one should go hungery------I repeat NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNERY especially in this day and age there is enough to go around and share with everyone.

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12:43 pm PDT, Sep 6, Joseph Mcanney, Arizona

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