World Hunger

I have been doing research on world hunger for the sustainable living class I am starting to teach in a couple of weeks. Every time, I read the statistics I am amazed. Thought I would share two with everyone today.

*1 in 6 people in the world are malnourished. That is 1.02 billion people.

*People in the US make up 6% of the world's population but yet consume 40% of the world's resources.

Statistics can be overwhelming or easy to dismiss without a putting a face to them. I would encourage you to look into some organizations. See what they do, read their stories and think about supporting them.

Some ideas to get you started: Heifer International, Bread for the World, your church denominations world hunger organization.

Sometimes it is hard to make the changes to live more sustainably but looking at these and other organizations websites and reading the stories gives me new incentive.