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| | The Millennium Development Goals
 | Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
Reduce by half the number who struggle daily for survival. |
The facts:
- Some 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day.
- Some 854 million people — most of them women and children — suffer from chronic hunger or malnutrition.
- Every three seconds, a child dies because of extreme poverty and disease.
Extreme poverty exacts a devastating toll on the children of the world, and hunger is for many a daily reality. Half of all childhood deaths can be tracked to a lack of food and malnutrition. For this reason, much of World Vision’s work focuses on reducing chronic malnutrition and ensuring that families and communities can provide for their needs.
How World Vision tackles hunger and extreme poverty
Nutrition education: World Vision trains parents in the importance of feeding their children food that contains essential nutrients such as vitamins A and C.
Agricultural assistance: World Vision provides farmers with seeds and tools for raising crops and livestock.
Agricultural training: We teach farmers improved agricultural techniques such as crop rotation, drip irrigation, and the planting of trees that will enrich over-worked soil.
Improved product storage: World Vision helps communities protect their available food resources with new storage techniques. In Mali, for example, we built granaries that decreased the annual food storage loss from 30 percent to 3 percent.
Marketing assistance: By identifying and providing resources for marketable products, World Vision helps farmers earn a stable income for their families. For example, we helped Brazilian farmers cultivate and market a crop of organic peppers when environmental changes made it impossible to grow their former crops.
Feeding centers: Following a natural disaster or refugee crisis, World Vision establishes emergency feeding clinics and often provides supplemental food until the next harvest. |
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What you can do
- Pray that Americans will deepen their concern for people suffering from extreme poverty and AIDS; that Americans will get involved and speak out for the poor; and for the G8 leaders, that they will act with compassion and boldness to take historic action for the poor.
- Advocate. Ask Congress to increase funding for the 2009 international affairs budget as one way to make progress toward eliminating extreme global poverty.
- Help meet some basic needs of people in impoverished communities for food, clothing, and health care.
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Federal Way, WA 98063-9716
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Who Is World Vision? World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
-Mother Teresa
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