Education and awareness are the first steps to understanding and solving any issue — and world hunger is no different. Growing the Movement is a pillar of our strategy to end hunger, and we need your help! Please use your social network for social good by sharing a fact or quote below to shed light and inspire action. By spreading the word, you’ll help us reach a whole new audience of Hunger Champions.
821 million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.
FAO
The number of people facing hunger in the world has dropped from 24% in 1990 to about 10%.
FAO
Africa has the highest prevalence of undernourishment — nearly 21% of the population is affected.
FAO
Giving women farmers more resources could bring the number of hungry people in the world down by 100-150 million people.
World Food Programme
Malnutrition is the single largest contributor to disease in the world.
FAO
School feeding programs can help prevent hunger, increase school enrollment, reduce absenteeism and improve learning outcomes.
FAO
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela
We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll
We know that a peaceful world cannot exist one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
President Jimmy Carter
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. This is how prayer works.
Pope Francis
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
Buzz Aldrin