Hunger and Clean Water Needs in the U.S. and Overseas
Hunger and Clean Water Needs in the U.S. and Overseas
Action Against Hunger provides lifesaving assistance and restores self-sufficiency to millions of people in over 40 countries.
According to www.actionagainsthunger.org, "Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. A third of the world’s population lives without basic sanitation infrastructure like a toilet. Every day 4,000 children die from illnesses like diarrhea, dysentery, and cholera caused by dirty water and unhygienic living conditions. We can’t fight malnutrition without tackling the diseases that contribute to it. As part of our integrated approach to hunger, we’re getting safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services to communities in need all over the world." This site also states four main water, sanitation, and hygiene facts they are
4,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable water-related diseases.
One in eight people lacks access to enough clean water to meet their basic needs.
More than half of the hospital beds in developing countries are taken by people suffering from diarrheal diseases.
Half of girls who stop attending primary school in Africa do so because of the lack of safe and private toilets.
Hunger, or undernutrition, results from the insufficient intake of macro- and micro-nutrients. It can lead to chronic malnutrition or the severe wasting associated with acute malnutrition.
Acute malnutrition is the more immediate killer: it afflicts an estimated 55 million children worldwide—19 million of whom suffer its deadliest, severest form—and results in some 3.5 million child deaths each year. This loss of life is all the more tragic because acute malnutrition is predictable, preventable, and treatable.
Moderate acute malnutrition affects some 36 million children worldwide, greatly increasing morbidity rates—an individual’s risk of death—by introducing serious deficiencies that compromise a
Action Against Hunger provides lifesaving assistance and restores self-sufficiency to millions of people in over 40 countries.
According to www.actionagainsthunger.org, "Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. A third of the world’s population lives without basic sanitation infrastructure like a toilet. Every day 4,000 children die from illnesses like diarrhea, dysentery, and cholera caused by dirty water and unhygienic living conditions. We can’t fight malnutrition without tackling the diseases that contribute to it. As part of our integrated approach to hunger, we’re getting safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services to communities in need all over the world." This site also states four main water, sanitation, and hygiene facts they are
4,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable water-related diseases.
One in eight people lacks access to enough clean water to meet their basic needs.
More than half of the hospital beds in developing countries are taken by people suffering from diarrheal diseases.
Half of girls who stop attending primary school in Africa do so because of the lack of safe and private toilets.
Hunger, or undernutrition, results from the insufficient intake of macro- and micro-nutrients. It can lead to chronic malnutrition or the severe wasting associated with acute malnutrition.
Acute malnutrition is the more immediate killer: it afflicts an estimated 55 million children worldwide—19 million of whom suffer its deadliest, severest form—and results in some 3.5 million child deaths each year. This loss of life is all the more tragic because acute malnutrition is predictable, preventable, and treatable.
Moderate acute malnutrition affects some 36 million children worldwide, greatly increasing morbidity rates—an individual’s risk of death—by introducing serious deficiencies that compromise a