Hunger Today

by Natasha Chart · 2009-05-08 04:45:00 UTC
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For all the problems that are coming, we have plenty here with us today.

In the US, 17 percent of children 5 years and younger don't have enough to eat. In Pennsylvania, not even one of the hardest hit states, that means 439,000 hungry children.

Worldwide, the UN forecasts that the financial crisis may throw a billion people into famine.

If you can help, please remember your local food banks, or the World Food Program. Because whatever the need was last year, it's more this year. Everywhere.

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