40-Hour Famine: Eyes Wide Open (VIDEO)

Every day, millions of children go hungry. But it doesn't have to be that way.

• Hunger is the world's No. 1 health risk, causing more deaths annually worldwide than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
  (Source: World Food Program)
• One in seven people in the world will go to bed hungry tonite.
  (Source: World Food Program)
• There are more hungry people in the world (925 million) than the combined population of the United States, Canada and the European Union (841 million)
  (Source: World Food Program)
• 925 million people do not have enough to eat  and 98 percent of them live in developing countries. (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010)
• 65 percent  of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia. 
  (Source: FAO news release, 2010)
• Undernutrition contributes to 5 million deaths of children under age five each year in developing countries.
  (Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006)
• One out of four children — roughly 146 million — in developing countries is underweight
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• 10.9 million children under age five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
  (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
• Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion people. Eradicating iron deficiency can improve national productivity levels by as much as 20 percent.
  (Source:  World Health Organization, WHO Global Database on Anaemia

Find out about the causes of hunger — and the solutions — in the video below from World Vision Australia (with music by Gotye.)

http://youtu.be/J-ZXmrVGkDw