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Friends of the World Food Program (Friends of WFP) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that builds support for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and other hunger relief operations. Friends of WFP works to unite organizations and individuals dedicated to ending world hunger. Take some time to check out the site and see how you can help. Thank you to Jessica for the heads up!

By the end of 2009, more than one billion people worldwide will suffer from chronic hunger. That’s more than 15 percent of the world population. Undernutrition leads to low birth weight in newborns and permanent growth stunting. It also hinders brain development.

Hunger is more deadly than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. In the next four seconds, someone, somewhere, will die of hunger. By the end of the day, an estimated 25,000 people (adults and children) will have died of hunger. By the end of the year, 9 million people will have died of hunger.

But hunger can be solved. Despite hunger’s prominence across the globe, there is enough food to feed every man, woman and child.

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